Re: A GNU Distribution

[Jason Self]

Richard Stallman asked:
> Can that be viewed without running nonfree software?

Yes. I was able to download the video to my computer and watch it without
proprietary software. I'm happy to convert it to Ogg Theora and post a link but
the video from the GNU Hackers Meeting is also good:

http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2009/ghm2009-dolstra-small.ogg
http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2009/dolstra-nix-slides.pdf

Richard Stallman asked:
>    Can we rig up a virtual directory /bin that would appear to contain
>    the files it ought to contain?

Alfred Szmidt said:
> Should be possible I suppose, same for /share, /lib, etc.

Referencing the talk from the GNU Hackers Meeting (and slides) it seems that it
shouldn't be necessary to do that though, since Nix manages this? And if you did
build a symlink of stuff in /bin which Foo, should get the /bin/foo symlink?
With Nix there it seems that there could be potentially 20 or more installed
copies, possibly they're different versions or the same version with different
configurations, or whatever other combination you can think of.

"People using the system can different profiles reflecting different sets of
installed applications." It's one of the benefits of using Nix, I think.

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