[Nix-dev] New website

Jason O'Conal lovek323 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 00:32:23 CEST 2014


On 4 Jun 2014, at 7:27 am, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I really don't like that Nixpkgs is being buried in favor of NixOS. More people using Nixpkgs => more bugs found+fixed, more packages, newer versions, more switches to NixOS.
> 
> Nixpkgs is a stepping stone.
> 
> Why point Homebrew users to Nix? They only want to have an nginx install, or a more recent rsync etc. They don't want to reinvent Nixpkgs...

+1

I am an OS X user and I love nix and nixpkgs – I would love to see a website describing the benefits of both for users of non-NixOS operating systems.


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