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6 points·pshirshov··8 comments

There aren't any binary packages or cache yet, but the creator of IX, Anton, has provided a rootfs tarball which uncompresses to about the same size as an installation of Ubuntu on WSL.

Also, I haven't seen anyone other than Anton add new package recipes to the IX repository. The documentation for creating package recipes is at https://stal-ix.github.io/PKG , but it's not referenced by any other page on the stal/IX website.

Patches are most welcome!

One could move the "statically build packages, for darwin/linux, with clang" to the "About" section on GitHub.

There are a lot of different environments which a package manager could cover. This is the most important thing for me when learning about new tools: Does it apply to my use case?

This particular one is built around the ideas of bootstrap/reproducibility/hermetcity. If your usecases would benefit from these properties it might apply.

In my opinion the docs need to be improved a lot.

You may want to look at the Bootstrappable Builds project and StageX in order to reduce your binary seeds to almost nothing.

https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/ https://stagex.tools/

Know about it. We have a slightly different model - we use the user's current trusted environment, for example, ubuntu, or fedora, for bootstrap.

None of those environments should be considered trusted; they are not themselves bootstrapped solely from source, they all rely on long chains of their own binaries, and for some things those binaries have relied on external binaries.

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