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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Well.... I don't think that it's just a matter of "solving dependency hell". I don't think it's a problem of the package manager "per se", but how reliable are RPM based distributions when you are switching from one iteration of the distribution to the next? At least, openSuSE (from what I've heard) hasn't reached the point where you can just "dist-upgrade" just like debian based distros can. How about RHEL4 to 5, or CentOS, Mandriva and so on? Has anybody experienced problems doing that? Has anybody tried?