Nix Package Manager

Comments discuss Nix and NixOS as superior solutions for dependency management, reproducible builds, and avoiding conflicts with tools like pip, npm, and cargo, often recommending it over alternatives.

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ris Mar 24, 2019 View on HN

Nix is not "your own dependency management system"

mjg59 Nov 23, 2021 View on HN

Doesn't Nix ship its own version of every library dependency rather than using system libraries?

ciupicri Sep 7, 2022 View on HN

Assuming you're using only Nixpkg and not doing pip install, npm install, cargo install and so on like many people suggest and do.

otabdeveloper4 Mar 16, 2024 View on HN

You shouldn't need one. Use Nix instead, they did 99% of the work for you already.

arpanetus Oct 27, 2021 View on HN

can nixos/nix package manager be somehow related?

1MachineElf Feb 22, 2021 View on HN

I would really like to know how NixOS solves this problem for things like yarn, webpack, parcel, esbuild, npm, pip, conda, cargo, stack, go modules, ruby gems, etc.

You may want to consider using Nix, with nix flakes.

htfy96 Apr 24, 2020 View on HN

NixOS already did this at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/74516

kaba0 Feb 11, 2023 View on HN

How is it different from Nix? Hell, it is much more easier/flexible with Nix, just clone nixpkgs and update a few files and build from that. You can have as many versions as you want.

ptman Jul 5, 2024 View on HN

Does nix and flakes help with a reproducible build environment?