[Nix-dev] Stripped down Linux distribution based on Nix/NixOS

[phreedom at yandex.ru]

On Wednesday, May 04, 2016 11:00:23 Ericson, John wrote:
> Glad to here you switched to NixOS!
> 
> For your hydra checksum concerns see https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/277
> --- in short it would be nice if we had "non-deterministic derivations" for
> this, but in the Eelco has just added a `fetchGit` builtin in the meantime.
> 
> I hope NixOS can somebody impose no policy and the user other than using
> Nix, but rather just provide support code for every conceivable setup, so
> please I hope you continue using it rather than rolling your own with Nix!
> Interesting use-cases are exactly needed to pull NixOS in this direction.

I suspect that "rolling your own" would probably involve patching rather than 
reimplementing nixos and it's a good thing as patches can then hopefully be merged 
back, at least the majority of them.
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