Package Managers #lca2017
Jan 20, 2017
edit: This got written up as an article on LWN.net, a huge thank you to Jonathan Corbet for that!
I have also been thinking about this presentation a lot in the years following - the package management problem remains unsolved and it's still something I wrestle with.
Lately I actually took the plunge and installed NixOS on two of my machines. It's weird and clunky in some ways, but at the same time it's a delight.
Talks
These are some other relevant talks from lca2017.
- Consider the Maintainer
- Rootless containers with runC
- Drink from the firehose: release-monitoring.org
Links
- Simple made easy (Rich Hickey)
- The future doesn't have to be incremental (Alan Kay)
- nix
- guix
- reproducible-builds.org
- appimage
- snap
- flatpak
- qubes os
- project atomic
- systemd
Credits
- South Lapland video / Standard Youtube License
- Alan Kay by Marcin Wichary / CC-BY-2.0
- Rustacean by Karen Rustad Tölva
- Hawk logo by Manuele Carlini
- OpenSUSE logo by the openSUSE artwork team