[renox]

>I totally agree that nix is the future of package management.

Perhaps, if they clean it up significantly, I think that nix's principles are very sound, but the implementation isn't: it's fine when you are using it as a simple package manager but as soon as you want to do something a bit complex (say building gcc with a different kernel version) you're on your own:

1) half of the documentation makes reference to configuration files which aren't in my version of nix??

2) there is no real mail/news forum for support/help: no IRC isn't enough.