[Nix-dev] systemd in the long run: Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems (it's almost Nix...)

[Luca Bruno]

On 02/09/2014 12:02, Alexei Robyn wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, Lennart's only response to you was: "we
> actually try to do our homework before we propose something. We looked
> at a variety of systems, and not just on Linux ones, but also what
> MacOS, Android, ChromeOS, and even Windows do..."
>
> Which - given it is completely generic and mentions none of the points
> you raised (or heck, Nix itself at all) - sounds a lot more like he's
> deflecting to buy time to grok Nix. I would think otherwise, but he
> wrote detailed responses to almost every other poster both before and
> after you... 
>
> Hopefully if this is the case he comes back with a solid understanding
> of it and not just enough of one to come up with seemingly plausible
> reasons why their plan is the superior option. Past experience of people
> in general tells me the latter is the more likely outcome but then I
> don't know Lennart in specific. Still, here's hoping this instead
> results in Nix getting some larger groups interested in it,  as well as
> in this class of problems :). 
I believe in no way Lennart will be interested in Nix, since it changes
things way too much and requires nix programming understanding for
system administration.

Instead I think he will come up with some other solution which is
similar to OSX, OSTree or 0install, together with some system-level changes.
I hope he will take a closer look at Nix, but in no way I think he will
even try it.