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by 0x457 1145 days ago
That's Nix with extra steps.
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bravetraveler 1145 days ago
I specifically said I'm not really trying to solution this, lol. More toying with the LD_PRELOAD aspect than anything

Nix is neat, and I don't think I've used it enough to be too critical - but in some ways it feels like 'extra steps'

I wanted to make a 'reproducible' installation (ala kickstart, not strictly binary)... but it felt very much like distribution work; declaring dependencies and the like

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0x457 1144 days ago
Oh, nix is an extra mile. A lot could be improved, but that's what I'm using to deal with dependencies.
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bravetraveler 1144 days ago
Gotcha, I don't feel so floundering now!

I plan to spend more time with it, I see a lot of merit

The amount of control is great, but the docs could use some work. For my simple goals (install Sway, Ansible, some other things) it was a broadsword when I need a butter knife

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0x457 1143 days ago
What sold me on nix is home-manager and flakes: I can easily bootstrap my environment anywhere nix is available.
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