[arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

[Denis Kobozev]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Isaac Dupree
<ml at isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote:
> NixOS does better
> (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born
> in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple
> versions of any package installed and they inherently won't conflict with
> each other.).

Interesting. Judging from a quick glance at the NixOS homepage, nix
deals with shared dependencies by having very precise rules about
which package requires which versions of shared libraries. So when a
new version of libfoo comes out, all packages that depend on libfoo
should be rebuilt. If package maintainers are lazy, you would end up
with a system where each package has its own version of libfoo...

Best,
Denis.