A look at Nix and Guix

Posted Mar 11, 2024 18:48 UTC (Mon) by Ivar (guest, #170136)
In reply to: A look at Nix and Guix by zimoun
Parent article: A look at Nix and Guix

I think Nix has the same level of extensibility, everything it provides can be overwritten or added to, as I assume is the case with Guix.

The concepts of channels maps directly to Nix as well, there you could also define (and easily share!) and additions you've made using channels or flakes. The central package/configuration module repository, nixpkgs, exposes all of it's infrastructure to help you out with this.

The tooling itself doesn't treat nixpkgs differently from any other channel/flake, you could in theory use the primitives provided by the Nix language to recreate everything from scratch without it. There isn't much of a point to rewriting the entire universe, but its possible!