From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Add "guix update" command Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:35:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2n0rnc7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tdycmtr.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9i4xng3.fsf@gnu.org> <20160123191146.52c824a8@alarmpi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aN5qA-0003gs-Cb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:35:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aN5q7-0000U1-7O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:35:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: (David Thompson's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:37:46 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel Hi! I very much agree with what David wrote. Note that NixOS has been merged into Nixpkgs several months ago precisely for the reasons David gave. That Nix remains separate from Nixpkgs/NixOS can be problematic because as new features of Nix language get used in Nixpkgs, backward-compatibility is broken (and adding features to the language is not uncommon since Nix is an external DSL that becomes less and less DS, as is often the case with DSLs ;-)). Ludo=E2=80=99.