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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2005-09-28
In all fairness, there were teams of Linux zealots telling us that there was no such thing as dependency hell back in 1998. Back then, if you criticised the situation, you were labelled an idiot for doing it wrong. It's understandable that it's difficult to assure people that package managers have matured and are now extremely reliable.