> > > i'm ill right now but a fun thing is that i tried nix again a few days > > > ago! > > > > > > it's lots of fun to go like `nix run nixpkgs#vim` (when you don't have > > > vim installed) and have it boot it up. > > > and the nix people (;as we know) made deterministic builds ! > > > > > > i installed nix on my phone and in wsl ubuntu, then i uninstalled my > > > packages so i'd get to use nix instead .. ummmm pretty edgy to do that > > > ... uhhhh > > > > > > anyway nix isn't very good at storage management, which is something > > > that's on my long term. it doesn't even attend to free space when > > > filling its cache. nor does whereever it downloads builds from seem to > > > have thge stuff that installs by default (maybe cause it installs the > > > latest version by default not sure) .. > > > > > > anyway that was cool to try nix. i was thinking m-- > > > > so obviously nix is missing a p2p package store for the cache by > > default and likely the reason for that is that people really enjoy > [whoooooops oooops ? > > reverifying the deterministic builds. it's valid to check them so much > > because it took so long to implement, indicating somebody causing > > binary corruption -- and we know there's been extensive binary > > corruption from the computer virus development history
anyway nix is right in line with my philosophy in areas others agree with but i don't tend to have the free space to use it [appropriately -- uh oops ... uh ...
