'Re: [Nix-dev] Why nginx config isn't placed into /etc/nginx/nginx.conf?'

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Subject:    Re: [Nix-dev] Why nginx config isn't placed into /etc/nginx/nginx.conf?
From:       Roger Qiu <roger.qiu () matrix ! ai>
Date:       2016-08-12 8:09:56
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Fascinating. Have you heard of CFEngine's "Convergent Fixedpoint" idea? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFEngine#Convergence

On 11/08/2016 7:21 PM, Christian Kauhaus wrote:
> Am 10.08.2016 um 00:29 schrieb Arnold Krille:
>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:54:10 +0100 Luca Bruno <lethalman88@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Except that the existing world and software is not reproducible and
>>> revertable.
>> [...]
>> Thanks to Nixos I can set my server back to the system configuration
>> from four months back. Apart from the user data of course.
> <philosophical>
>
> Systems management always decomposes into congruent, convergent and divergent
> realms. The aim of Nix (as I understand it) is to grow the congruent realm. Of
> course, the other realms won't go away.
>
> For those interested, I've written a blog post some months ago which explains
> these realms and how they relate to NixOS:
>
> https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2016/05/06/thoughts-on-systems-management-methods/
>
> </philosophical>
>
> HTH
>
> Christian
>
>
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    <p>Fascinating. Have you heard of CFEngine's "Convergent Fixedpoint"
      idea? <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/08/2016 7:21 PM, Christian
      Kauhaus wrote:<br>
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      <pre wrap="">Am 10.08.2016 um 00:29 schrieb Arnold Krille:
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        <pre wrap="">On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:54:10 +0100 Luca Bruno <a \
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href="mailto:lethalman88@gmail.com">&lt;lethalman88@gmail.com&gt;</a> wrote:
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          <pre wrap="">Except that the existing world and software is not \
reproducible and revertable.
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Thanks to Nixos I can set my server back to the system configuration
from four months back. Apart from the user data of course.
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&lt;philosophical&gt;

Systems management always decomposes into congruent, convergent and divergent
realms. The aim of Nix (as I understand it) is to grow the congruent realm. Of
course, the other realms won't go away.

For those interested, I've written a blog post some months ago which explains
these realms and how they relate to NixOS:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
href="https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2016/05/06/thoughts-on-systems-management-methods/" \
>https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2016/05/06/thoughts-on-systems-management-methods/</a>

&lt;/philosophical&gt;

HTH

Christian

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