[Neurodebian-users] NeuroFedora packaging priorities

[Yaroslav O Halchenko]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2019, John Pellman wrote:

>  > Nope, not at all:

>  >   $ nix run --store ~/nix nixpkgs.nix nixpkgs.bashInteractive

>  > This will create an user-owned nix store, which does not require root
>  > privileges, and spawn a shell where this store will be mounted to /nix.

>    It’s also worth pointing out that nix has tooling for building deb/rpm
>    packages (see here).  I think it might be worth investigating the use of

thanks!  not to discourage any further investigation, but building
.deb would not be sufficient to have package in a state acceptable for
debian.  If it built .dsc (source package) then it would have been
indeed worth investigation.  After all we have already "alien" to
convert between rpm and deb

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