[Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

[Marc Weber]

Please think the other way round:
- most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install
  packages

  Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only
  encoded in "configure" scripts or READMEs.

Rubyforge and PyPi (don't know what's current in python community) do
have some limited readable information. At least my nixpkgs-ruby-overlay
is based on it.

Thus maybe there is a way to convert dependency information rather than
duplicating the work.

Even omitting "dependency information' - just knowing about the latest
stable version - would make it easier to keep nixpkgs/NiJS/guix up to
date IMHO.

Marc Weber