Posted Nov 26, 2012 21:07 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: GNU Guix launches by apoelstra
Parent article: GNU Guix launches
the "users" like Apache, ftp, sshd, dbus, etc had better not be installing software packages for themselves.
If you want to not have these different things depend on a common set of libraries, you still don't need per-user installable packages, you just have a distro do static linking of libraries instead of dynamic linking (or you use chroot sandboxes or containers)
Posted Nov 26, 2012 22:39 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
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If you had perfect foresight that would be a fine answer. It's hard to 'go back' and change the way things are set up when you find you need something a little different today.