Certainly NIX is an interesting approach. It already comes with a large base of dependencies, a format for specifying them. NIX can be installed in any Linux distro and serve as an environment for building packages. That might provide a cross-distribution solution to the native dependency problem.

See, a nice post by Oliver Charles

http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-with-nixos.html

Michal

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, David Thomas <davidleothomas@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, well, if that's the case I'd like to see about remedying that. Anyone have any thoughts as to how to best go about this? I'm not clear on exactly what info lives where, especially across systems. Entirely manual population would be a (barely) acceptable fallback.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Dan Burton <danburton.email@gmail.com> wrote:

I have wished for this on multiple occasions. I don't believe such a thing exists as of yet.

-- Dan Burton

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:26 AM, David Thomas <davidleothomas@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to extract this? I'm looking to make it easier for newcomers to my project to get things building across different linux distros.

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