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Is NixOS truly reproducible?
How this article discusses reproducibility in NixOS and declines to even mention the intensional model or efforts to implement it are surprising to me, since it appears they have done a lot of research into the matter.
If you don’t know, the intensional model is an alternative way to structure the NixOS store so that components are content-addressable (store hash is based on the targets) as opposed to being addressed based on the build instructions and dependencies. IIUC, the entire purpose of the intensional model is to make Nix stores shareable so that you could just depend on Cachix and such without the worry of a supply-chain attack. This approach was an entire chapter in the Nix thesis paper (chapter 6) and has been worked on recently (see https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 and https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 for current progress).
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Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
Austin I think some of these distinctions are not necessary for the theory.
In https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn... there is only an action graph but it is dynamic. Dynamic craft would depend on an entire directory, and thus need to be rebuilt a lot. But when individual files are projected out, there is a new opportunity for early cut-off.
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Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
I'm afraid the letter spread some misinformation: The meson RFC has in fact not been approved: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132
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Nix: The Breaking Point
You may consider this view biased, but we have this: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod
* September 2023: The "Nix Community Survey 2023" is looking for gender data, and the mods don't like that most contributors are men.
* November 2023: The moderation team tries to institute a Code of Conduct https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/114 ... and they get their way
* November 2023: Some are not happy about it: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/moderation-team-accountability... -- the moderators talk about their "authority" and of course lock and hide the thread. It's "disruptive" and "off-topic", you see.
* This sort of activity continues -- moderators consolidating and increasing their power, citing how they need the power to control "concern trolls" and such -- and now in April 2024, we get https://save-nix-together.org/
The "anonymous contributors" want to drive out the NixOS founder entirely, so that _they_ are in charge. They want "to hold people accountable for bad behaviour at all levels" and lament having "responsibility without authority" - in other words, they want power, power, power. They want power over everyone. Their justification is that they believe they have the moral high ground, and they deserve to lord it over everyone else.
Hold onto that hard power, Eelco, and tell this lot to fork the project. Let's see how they enjoy moderating noxious.org instead of nixos.org
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What Nix Will Have Been
https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceiz36/thoughts_on_...
And the RFC to improve the situation:
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
- Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
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Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems
Nix with dynamic derivations (RFC92) could potentially beat this curse.
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn...
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Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
See: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
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I like gentoo's package deprecation process
NixOS recently introduced "problem" infrastructure to deal with such problems more gracefully and explicitly:
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0127-issues-w...
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