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IshKebab on Jan 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guix: An advanced operating system

> Even if the devs don't need Turing-completeness, not adding it to a project is effectively limitating what the user can do with a program.

But limiting what people can do with build systems is generally a good thing.

Ambrevar on Jan 15, 2019 [–]

Why?

Also one core feature of Guix is that it cannot break: you can always roll back.

IshKebab on Jan 17, 2019 | [–]

Because then tools can reason about the build system. Also it limits the crazy things people try to do.

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