[Nix-dev] Re: NixOS on embedded systems

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

Salut,

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 06:44:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 03:32:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Additionally, it is a heavy operation for a computer to evaluate the current
> > nixpkgs (2nd point).
> 
> That’s indeed a problem.  I think a solution would be to have a Nix
> compiler instead of/in addition to the current interpreter, but of
> course we’re far from there.
NixOS looks heavier to evaluate to niksnut; We'd have to test.
> 
> > Having those nixpkgs pointing mostly to fetchurl derivations instead of usual
> > stdenv mkDerivations, it makes additionally a fence against building natively or
> > cross-building those packages (3rd point).
> 
> You mean that NixOS/Nixpkgs could be “compiled” to some sort of a big
> Nix expression that just does ‘fetchurl’ calls to fetch the pre-compiled
> binaries?
Yes, exactly. This is the idea! :)
> 
> It’s a form of compilation, but it’s also a hack.  ;-)
Thank you ;)

Amike,
Lluís.