[arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Denis Kobozev <d.v.kobozev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

GoboLinux does something similar in that packages are installed to
some place in a directory named packagename-version/ and then things
are symlinked in.