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Sure in theory but there are a few open bugs: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2651 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2292 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1203 There's a locking issue with SQLite and the Sandbox has some namespace…

comment by exdsq · 2020-05-20 · in What Is Nix?

…[0] https://nixos.org/learn.html [1] https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html?channel=nixos-19.09 [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nix#license [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING [4] https://guix.gnu.org/about/

comment by kalium-xyz · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS

…to make an unencrypted partition for Nix etc..), though i haven't tried it so i might be wrong :) https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3212

comment by asdf-asdf-asdf · 2020-04-13 · in Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems

Caution for OS X users — https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925

comment by srik · 2020-02-11 · in I Was Wrong about Nix

there's been some effort https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859

comment by sideeffffect · 2019-04-14 · in IPFS Project Roadmap

Sure thing. I think most of the discussions have been cross-referen ed in this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859

comment by arianvanp · 2019-04-13 · in IPFS Project Roadmap

…already contain reusable functions which do this, e.g. 'fetchPypi', 'buildPythonPackage', etc. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f... > But most system package managers are platform specific, which is not really…

comment by chriswarbo · 2019-02-13 · in The State of Python Packaging

…with 2GB RAM. Nix 2.0 had a bug which caused excessive memory use, but it's been fixed in 2.1: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836... https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/48662d151bdf4a38670897be...

comment by tilpner · 2019-01-11 · in Show HN: Docker-based immutable workstation

https://github.com/NixOS/nix

comment by SSLy · 2018-12-18 · in Reasons Python Sucks

I was previously running into https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2244 but it looks like the problem is now fixed :tada:

comment by 0xb100db1ade · 2018-10-06 · in NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish Released

…I'd like to see Nix integrate with distributed, content-addressable systems like IPFS (e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296 ), especially for inputs like tarballs, git repos, etc. It's all well and good having reproducibles builds…

comment by chriswarbo · 2018-06-01 · in Announcing Cachix – Binary Cache as a Service

…some strategic changes. Here's the github issue with a bunch of related discussion and details: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/179

comment by benley · 2018-03-07 · in Bazel Fawlty

…share a cache for 'extra' or 'old' packages without much infrastructure work on the parts of users. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859

comment by pxc · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

It looks like Nix 2.0 is tagged[1] but nixpkgs isn't updated yet[2] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.0 [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/472dd33ea4905d562d9380...

comment by clhodapp · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

…towards a new nix-shell development environment can can compose different kinds of isolation): https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/903#issuecomment-3647447...

comment by CMCDragonkai · 2018-02-22 · in My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition

…a Linux package, I want to use an IPFS hash instead (IPFS is hopefully coming to Nix at some point https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859 ). In the latter case, I could add these files to IPFS myself, but I'd probably be the only one…

comment by chriswarbo · 2017-11-30 · in Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf]

…user land packages, very low barrier to entry). I can't wait until that ticket is addressed. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779

comment by pfranz · 2017-10-15 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

…whereas Nix uses a custom DSL. Furthermore, Guix avoids systemd and uses GNU herd instead. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779

comment by nextos · 2017-10-15 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

…managers. The design is at https://gist.github.com/edolstra/efcadfd240c2d8906348 The issue is at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779

comment by DonbunEf7 · 2017-06-23 · in Typing Nix

…some tests, which appear to chroot into another OS image and run commands. Complete coincidence :) https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/release.nix#L202

comment by chriswarbo · 2017-03-21 · in Creating bundles with guix pack

…fallout of the IPFS idea (imo), which is that of .nar deduplication, as detailed in the issue https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859 (point 4). Perhaps a nail in the coffin of one of Nix's biggest absurdities.

comment by ris · 2017-01-19 · in Distributing NixOS with IPFS

Not quite the same but nix[0] and the nix expression language [1] is also missing from the list. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix [1] https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language

comment by makefu · 2017-01-03 · in Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

…an effort to bring PackageKit to NixOS, which should make a few GUI package managers work[1]. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779 [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/233

comment by roblabla · 2016-06-16 · in Maintainers Matter: The case against upstream packaging

…first release from github). [0] [0] Release Notes: http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-relnotes [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix [2] https://github.com/edolstra Edit: Thanks to sibling posts for the other info they were able to dig up for us.

comment by j1vms · 2016-05-26 · in Nix as OS X Package Manager

…will improve all those interfaces; I'm not sure how far along it is, though. Here's the discussion: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779

comment by benley · 2016-05-25 · in Nix as OS X Package Manager

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296#issuecomment-7234731...

comment by Ericson2314 · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS

…as well as using Nix outside NixOS. For example, every file in the nix store is world readable. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8

comment by pmahoney · 2014-10-11 · in Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution