[imiric]

That's good to know, thanks.

> Replacing /etc/apk/world to any previous state will “roll back” the system to that point.

That's not quite what rollback means, though.

Say that a new version of a display driver crashes my display server. With NixOS I could reboot into a previous configuration and have a working system in no time. If I have to keep track of /etc/apk/world changes myself, and boot into recovery mode or chroot to fix this manually, it takes time, effort and frustration I'd rather not have to deal with.

Stateless /var is a good idea, but I'm not sure it would address this problem.

In any case, I'll definitely keep an eye on Chimera. We need more distros that are not derivatives, and try to do something different. Wishing the team the best of luck, and hoping the project succeeds!