[Nix-dev] wiki tops - new item proposal

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sun Jul 6 00:47:28 CEST 2008


> - Ideas about improving nix (such as spearating doc, runtime, dev files
>   of packages, ideas on decentralizing nix (distributed vcs etc))
> - A lot of howtos (ndiswrapper & nixos) etc even if there is only the note "doesn't work yet"
>   Of course they must reference the manual if appropriate.
> - Pitfalls and solutions
>         Things which could be put here:
>                 If thightvnc doesn't let you start your window manager remove
>                 .Xauthority and try again - don't know why but this did work for
>                 me
>         xpdf & nixos ( add ghostscript fonts to .xpdfrc)
>         ...
> - People working on and progress
>         XY is working on ..
>         ZZ is improving ...
>         satus about Haskell effort (not much progress yet)
>         current branches purpose / status
> 
- those packages suck because
        dietlibc (udev no longer builds with it ) and "has lot's of issues' doesn't seem to be well maintained
        alternative : klibc?
  ... and we'd like to get rid of them in the future..

Marc



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