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GNU Guix launchesGNU Guix launchesPosted Nov 28, 2012 1:00 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: GNU Guix launches by davidescott Parent article: GNU Guix launches
It's a simple fallacy separating "we" (us?) from "them". We sometimes click on wrong links. We drive to the wrong neighborhood. One who has root can still veto some installed package or upgrade it and force the upgrade to the users' profiles. The facility here is that, instead of downloading a tarball and ./configuring make install, the user apt-gets (nixes, guixes) it from the repository where things are better controlled.
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GNU Guix launches Posted Nov 28, 2012 13:47 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
You made my point much more concisely than I managed to do. :-)
Again, it's a matter of whether one can concede a degree of control in order to maintain a degree of supervision, or whether people will eventually feel obliged to break out and go to external entities for the goodies, leading to all sorts of recriminations afterwards (especially if something went wrong).
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