Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 23rd Dec 2008 00:30 UTC
A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike existing package managers, Nix allows different versions of software to live side by side, and permits sane rollbacks of software upgrades.
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2005-07-24
Me and my clients, too. I also use a Debian based distro on my desktop, and don't have problems there, either. Yet there always seems to be someone flitting about wanting to save us from "dependency hell". It used to be the Debian crowd. But they finally figured out that other distros had package management. Now it seems to be random projects from every which direction coming at us with a mission to unify everything. If in doubt, you can recognize them by their claims that (1) You have a problem, (2) They can solve it, (3) Their product can mess around with your system without interfering with your native package manager, and (4) Your girlfriend will be amazed, and the guys in the locker room will be impressed.
I'll stick with Yum and Apt, thanks.
Edited 2008-12-23 01:18 UTC