[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

[Jookia]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:10:51AM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> On 18-03-2017 11:39:15, Jookia wrote:
> > Having enough interest to get forked is certainly a good thing. Who 
> > knows, maybe NixOS will join the ranks of other distros with 
> > spin-offs.
> 
> Oh please no!
> 
> Whether it is a good thing what is proposed here or not - we really
> should try to hear all voices and try to get the best of all worlds
> Having many spinoffs won't help anyone and result in a _lot_ of work
> duplicated. That is _never_ a good thing.

That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that duplicated work
is a cost of doing a fork, and if you're okay with it then it's not so much a
big deal as long as the people doing the duplicated work are ok with it.

In the end, people would use what they want to use. :)