[drdaeman]

You misspelled Nixpkgs ;-)

I'm kidding, of course, but IIRC pkgsrc (and alikes, such as APT) has a number of limitations, for example a very limited ability to have multiple versions of the same package installed, making it less than optimal replacement.

(I believe a lot of people depend on ability to spin up a new version while the old is running, then do the cutover and shut down the old one after it's not is use.)

[pxc]

Capabilities aside, if you're reproducible and source-based, you're gonna survive binary artifact repository outages a lot better than if you're not.

If there were a comparable culling of the Nixpkgs binary cache, pipelines relying on Nix for their packages would be affected in a much less invasive way: they'd see Nix silently fall back to upstream sources, and reproducibly build from source, wherever the caches binary artifacts became unavailable.

[jayp1418]

Also it has unprivileged builds, installations, packages rooted anywhere in filesystem, completely self-contained dependencies.

[goodpoint]

> APT ... has a number of limitations

...and crucial features, like having security fixes backported.

[pxc]

What you're alluding to is an Ubuntu decision about what goes into their repos, and has nothing to do with apt itself.

[goodpoint]

If anything it's usually a Debian decision. But it's more than that.

[anthk]

And Guix, too. Specially Guix.

[jayp1418]

pkgsrc allows installation of multiple versions of same package ;)

[drdaeman]

Concurrently, with both versions usable? I was not aware of this. Could you please give me a brief primer how it works? Thanks!