[Nix-dev] NixOS "small" channel

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> writes:

> Since last week there is a new NixOS channel:

>   https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04-small

> This is a variant of the regular NixOS 14.04 channel mainly intended for
> servers that need fast security updates. It differs from the regular 14.04
> channel in the following ways:

> * It builds way, way fewer packages. In particular, there is no desktop
> stuff, and no gazillion Python/Perl/Haskel/... packages.

> * It has fewer release-critical tests. For instance, it doesn't require any
> of the X11 tests to succeed.

> * It only builds x86_64 binaries.

This is great, Eelco!  Just want I wanted for my file server at home, which
fits exactly into this use case.

John