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- Method 1: doesn't really improve layer caching, but it provides a familiar way (via Dockerfile) to use Nix packages. As with any Dockerfile, the creator is in charge of creating …

Thank you. Would you be willing to give us a challenge in a form of example environment that your data analysts/engineers would use with only a `flox pull`?

an error (i think) https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/commit/70bcfbb64a0e3...

i use nix to build my docker images and love it for that. http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools

as nixos user i looked at habitat and the thing that i will never switch to habitat is that environments are not (build) reproducible. basically habitat is more like docker where i…

the major reason for poor package support is low number of osx users (hydra - nix build farm - builds binaries also for osx).

a redesign of nix command line is on the way. so thins should get easier.

give pypi2nix a try and ping me on irc if it fails (nick: garbas) https://github.com/garbas/pypi2nix

with nix you can now build docker images ... docs are in the manual http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools and it is actually rather cool since you don't rely on any…

i think guix/nix solution (can) goes beyond ruby platform and you can define dependencies on non ruby components: postresql, mysql, mongodb, ...

nix has tools to convert gemfile into nix expressions http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/01...

with guix/nix you don't even care if they get adopted or not. you can use it in coexistence with any package manager. very common scenario i come across few times a year: you get t…

nix (and potentially guix) is working on windows, at least from what i heard. probably there are some issues with existing packages since nobody really pays much attention to windo…

you can rollback on debian? you can install packages as user on RedHat? i moved away from it just because things like .deb and .rpm don't do the job all the way

havent try guix yet, but with nix you can simply do: nix-env -i vim or vimFull and it should install it. look in documentation at http://nixos.org/nix/ on how to install nix and dr…

you have yet to give guix or nix a try. been using paludis in past and i can tell you that guix/nix is obvious evolution step :)