On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Kjell Godo <squeaklist at gmail.com> wrote:

> How does Smalltalk's
>
> ConfigurationOf...
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> and Metacello
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> compair to
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> Nix and NixOS
>
> are they somewhat the same?
>
> Can Smalltalk install atomically?  Uninstall atomically?
>
> Can multiple versions of a Package be in the image at the same time?
>
> Just wondering.
>

Well, they both track dependencies, but other than that, they have very
little in common.

I've played around with building images with Nix, and have an *idea* of how
to use Environments to build an image that's organized similar to a nix
store, but haven't gone very far down that road.

-Colin
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