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		davexunit on Dec 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional ... Looks like a lot of overlap between this and Nix[0] and GNU Guix[1], which are purely functional package managers. I'm not sure from this article how Snappy actually works. Are they repackaging everything they need for Snappy? [0] http://nixos.org/ [1] https://gnu.org/software/guix

digi_owl on Dec 9, 2014 | [–]

I guess a subset of that could be GNU Stow or Gobolinux.

quarterto on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

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