From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:09:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3e386dd-3629-d868-3133-82b325c5a783@riseup.net> (raw)
Hi
I stumpled upon this today:
https://www.slant.co/topics/344/~best-linux-package-managers
Insights from the Guix-section:
4 pros: (missing the roll-back feature) see link.
1 cons:
"Cannot handle filetypes that have different semantics across different
versions
While the functional approach that Guix takes is great for sandboxing
binary artifacts of packages, it seriously lacks any power in handling
configuration files or user data. It's difficult to upgrade and
downgrade files where semantics and syntax can change between versions."
Do you agree with this critique?
Should we ask the author to give an example of this?
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-08 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 9:09 swedebugia [this message]
2018-11-08 9:43 ` Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-08 15:31 ` Adam Van Ymeren
2018-11-08 16:11 ` swedebugia
2018-11-11 13:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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