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

[Alexander Zubkov]

On 2014-09-02 14:06, Luca Bruno wrote:
> 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.

Given the history. He will prefer to reimplement Nix, than try it. :)