Where’s that XKCD comic about competing standards again?
I believe that this developer is entirely comparing apples and oranges. A config management system is a system that supports every single distro that is and potentially can ever be in your care. That means different inits, package managers, and even application versioning.
Nix is a package manager that’s ironically named because not only does it do package management but it has a tacked on level of config management. While it’s a neat idea that isn’t seen much in mainstream right now, it’s an entirely different beast than one that tries to unify distros, not in essence replace them.
Where’s that XKCD comic about competing standards again?
I believe that this developer is entirely comparing apples and oranges. A config management system is a system that supports every single distro that is and potentially can ever be in your care. That means different inits, package managers, and even application versioning.
Nix is a package manager that’s ironically named because not only does it do package management but it has a tacked on level of config management. While it’s a neat idea that isn’t seen much in mainstream right now, it’s an entirely different beast than one that tries to unify distros, not in essence replace them.