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Show HN: Ix Package Manager

by pshirshov on 5/5/25, 7:22 PM with 8 comments

• by JazzedPineda on 5/6/25, 12:48 PM

  There aren't any binary packages or cache yet, but the creator of IX, Anton, has provided a rootfs tarball which uncompresses to about the same size as an installation of Ubuntu on WSL.

  Also, I haven't seen anyone other than Anton add new package recipes to the IX repository. The documentation for creating package recipes is at https://stal-ix.github.io/PKG , but it's not referenced by any other page on the stal/IX website.

• by gardnr on 5/5/25, 8:08 PM

  One could move the "statically build packages, for darwin/linux, with clang" to the "About" section on GitHub.

  There are a lot of different environments which a package manager could cover. This is the most important thing for me when learning about new tools: Does it apply to my use case?