nix-bundle Reviews and details

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• Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here

  I admit that there is an element of, "but I chose an obscure and challenging linux variant, waaah why isn't it supported" here, but (a) there's currently no flatpak and (b) when, for goodness sakes, will major linux projects begin packaging for Nix/NixOS as a matter of course? It's not hard, and the benefits go far outside merely supporting Nix, as e.g. a flake.nix file would allow this project to generate docker... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Pushing/marketing the nix package manager as a Flatpak/Snap competitor?

  Another way to approach this would be to advocate Nix as the build system for Flatpak or AppImage. Don't know what the status is of nix-bundle, but if it is possible to turn a Nix package into an AppImage with little extra work that would be ideal. Source: about 3 years ago

• Pushing/marketing the nix package manager as a Flatpak/Snap competitor?

  Somewhat related, I wanted to mention nix-bundler it allows to wrap an application with nix into a single file. Source: about 3 years ago

• Flaptak (and Snap) is not the future

  Nix itself is more focused on "distribute from this host with nix, to this other host with nix". Though, here is e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle, which is supported as an experimental command in nix 2.4. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Does Nix or NixOS address the problem raised by Linus Torvalds on package management?

  I believe this tool does: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle. Source: over 3 years ago

• NixOS 21.05 Released

  Yes, it's extremely powerful once you truly understand Nix. There are efforts to improve documentation, but it still is lacking (I think the biggest problem is that Nix is so big, not just the OS but it can be utilized as a build system). Just with NixOS is not exactly clear how can you for example build your custom image. I think https://nix.dev/ is approaching the documentation from the right direction. There... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Everyday Package Management with GNU Guix

  That's not what I heard here, also nix-bundle is a third party project, in guix that functionality is built in. Source: almost 4 years ago