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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle@programming.dev to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

The 8 dependencies must be an optional dependency for some other package you already have installed. That said, that kind of stuff is the main reason I want to try NixOS - any time I install something, configure something, etc. I'm risking forgetting about it and getting tripped up over it down the line, with no good way to check.