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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I just like them because my system feels “cleaner.” Always drove me nuts with Arch or Debian when you install something, let’s say it requires ~20 decencies, then you remove it later, run the respective dependency clean command, and it only removes lets say ~12 packages. Like where did those 8 dependencies go? Are they just stuck on my system forever? Atomic desktops don’t have this issue which I really appreciate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

May I introduce you to our lord and savior portage?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I have yet to climb Mt. Gentoo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The 8 dependencies must be an optional dependency for some other package you already have installed. That said, that kind of stuff is the main reason I want to try NixOS - any time I install something, configure something, etc. I'm risking forgetting about it and getting tripped up over it down the line, with no good way to check.