To be honest I did try to use Nix for exactly this purpose. For some reason things started to break and since I couldnt find any documentation on how to do stuff with it, I just abandonded the idea. Also tried out NixOS: pretty much the same story. Everything appears to be fine at the start, but then after few upgrades things start to fail.<br>


<br>I know its very vague but really this is how I remember this experience. For one thing there was lack of &quot;how tos&quot; related to Haskell stuff anywhere. Just some general documentation that really have some gaps. You end up digging up some implementation details just because you wanted to install a new package.<br>


<br>I&#39;m not trying to spread FUD: only telling my not-so-success story with Nix.<br><br>I&#39;m sure Nix/NixOS has some potential but clearly it&#39;s not there yet for some reason.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Krzysztof Skrzętnicki<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Peter Simons <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simons@cryp.to" target="_blank">simons@cryp.to</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Chris,<br>
<div><br>
 &gt; I cannot see how it can address any of the user-level Haskell package<br>
 &gt; database management and sandboxing mechanisms that I mentioned in the<br>
 &gt; announcement and subsequent emails.<br>
<br>
</div>have you ever actually used Nix?<br>
<br>
Take care,<br>
Peter<br>
<div><div><br>
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