Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Tobias Nissen
Guy Wire wrote: > Is there any interest in Nix? > > http://nixos.org/ > > I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it > seemed to me an intriguing concept. This has been discussed on debian-devel some time ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg01007.html sig

RE: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:59:13 -0500 Guy Wire wrote: > >Is there any interest in Nix? > >http://nixos.org/ > >I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it seemed to me an intriguing concept. > There was some discussion about recently. IIRC, the conclusion was that it was an in

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:35 +0100, kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz wrote: > I would like to ask you a little bit controversal question. As a user I miss > in ubuntu a powerfull dependency solver. You can read many discussions all > over the web, where users are threatened that RPM causes dependency hell.

RE: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Guy Wire
Is there any interest in Nix? http://nixos.org/ I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it seemed to me an intriguing concept. ~ imag1narynumber > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:35:03 +0100 > From: kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject:

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
> Both of Zypper and SMART has also capabilities to manage repositories and > keys, which is something APT can't. So What are your opoinions of implementing > > 1) Zypper to ubuntu Zypper supports different formats, the same as Libzypp. Currently there are: * Repositories YaST2 (which ar