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From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues a...
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matthewsnyder
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2023-09-08T22:45:53Z (about 1 year ago)
- From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues arising from various dependency/version conflicts.
Are there any significant *differences* between these two distributions?
- From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues arising from various dependency/version conflicts.
- Are there any *significant differences* between these two distributions? Why would one decide to use NixOS and not Guix, or vice versa?
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matthewsnyder
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2023-09-08T22:44:14Z (about 1 year ago)
Are NixOS and Guix analogous projects?
From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues arising from various dependency/version conflicts. Are there any significant *differences* between these two distributions?