[Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

[Mathijs Kwik]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Excerpts from phreedom's message of Tue May 14 15:44:24 +0200 2013:
>> It isn't only about production. I'm sure that we managed to scare away some
>> newbie users with a temporarily broken master branch.
> I don't understand why, because nixos is the *only* distribution you can
> just use older revision and continue. So it should even make those newbe
> users use nixos with even more joy.

You can only roll back if you had at least 1 successful build.
A new user might end up with build errors during installation.

>
> The problem is there are many packages - and there will be more - we
> will not have a chance to test all of them (eg games) - so we should
> define what we want to call breakage.
> Eg breaking ati/nvidia proprietary drivers is bader than breaking a
> particular game (for work).
>
> There will always be "new users" who find bugs .. So maybe the better
> way is to emphasize that using nixos its a smaller problem compared to
> other distros.
>
> Marc Weber
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