I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here
Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop
(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):
- NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton -
- Reddit post - 15 contributors left Nixpkgs maintenance
- Programming.dev post - Jon Ringer’s suspension
As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):
@jakehamilton@hachyderm.io why “aux”? Will that name be put up to a vote?
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@onlinepersona @recursive_recursion I don’t think we need to spend time bikeshedding the name. As for the reasons I chose it:
- it is short
- similar to nix
- is short for “auxiliary” which can be used to mean “another”, “additional”, “secondary”, “separate”; so it being a separate nix ecosystem lines up
Doesn’t have to be bikeshedding. It’s 2 steps:
But it’s your baby, do what you like.
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