> So why not use it as an install tool? Then your entire configuration
> is recorded in and driven by a pretty simple text file. That's all you
> need, so we can pre-seed that config file for automatic installs. And
> we can customise that SAME file for installs configured in real-time,
> because s
On Mon 08 Nov 2021 at 22:16:20 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> >> In contrast, with NixOS/Guix that list is available in a plain text
> >> >> editable file.
> > I'm not sure I'd call scheme a "plain text".
>
> Interesting. What I mean is a file that's intended to be manipulated by
> a text ed
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:22 PM Stefan Monnier
wrote:
> > language to do it. Here are some of those ways:
> > Saltstack, Puppet, chef, ansible, AWS Cloudformation, XML
>
> I hear you, and you're probably right (save for XML: not sure what it
> has to with the subject).
>
Simply that it could
On 2021-11-08, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>>
>> I thought plain text meant "a pure sequence of character codes" without
>> any formatting information attached to it (e.g. HTML) or something. As
>>
>
> Here's the thing. We already have many ways to install debian and any other
Here's yet another thi
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:55 AM Curt wrote:
> On 2021-11-08, David Wright wrote:
> >> >> In contrast, with NixOS/Guix that list is available in a plain text
> >> >> editable file.
> >
> > I'm not sure I'd call scheme a "plain text". Or do you mean something
> > other than the file that commences
On 2021-11-08, David Wright wrote:
>> >> In contrast, with NixOS/Guix that list is available in a plain text
>> >> editable file.
>
> I'm not sure I'd call scheme a "plain text". Or do you mean something
> other than the file that commences with:
>
> (operating-system
> ;; ...
>
>> > in
On Sun 07 Nov 2021 at 08:58:23 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> didier gaumet [2021-11-07 03:16:12] wrote:
> > Le mardi 26 octobre 2021 à 09:25 -0400, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
> > [...]
> >> Think of it this way: currently, you can more or less figure out
> >> which
> >> packages you decided to ins
Le mardi 26 octobre 2021 à 09:25 -0400, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
[...]
> Think of it this way: currently, you can more or less figure out
> which
> packages you decided to install on your machine by going through the
> list
> of installed packages and filtering out all those that are marked as
>
> I stumble upon this article about (supposedly) Guix's
> characteristics/advantages:
[...]
> , and was curious about the opinions of the educated Debian people on the
> matter.
I haven't read that article, but here's my opinion:
I would love to see Debian move towards a model like that of NixOS o
On Monday, 25 Oct 2021 at 20:43, riveravaldez wrote:
> I stumble upon this article about (supposedly) Guix's
> characteristics/advantages:
The author loses me at the point where the article discusses programming
languages and cites, amongst others, Octave and LaTeX as re-inventing
the wheel and be
Hi, everybody,
I stumble upon this article about (supposedly) Guix's
characteristics/advantages:
https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/
, and was curious about the opinions of the educated Debian people on the
matter.
Maybe even just a link to a text where the subject gets elaborated or the
stateme
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