Relationship between Nix and this project
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Nix is a declarative, reproducible package manager based on a PhD thesis by Eelco Dolstra et. al. published in 2004. It operates its /nix/store filled with hashed paths -- just like IX.
Is this project based on / inspired by Nix? What is the key difference and improvement? It would be good to add it to README.
Tecnically IX uses similar FS layout, as Nix/Guix(and many other modern package managers).
I can't really say that IX based or inspired by Nix, cause they have in common only FS layout (and, in IX case, it is inspired by our corporate private build system).
IX have a new fresh package base, build on top of python + Jinja2 stack, we do not provide user's home management.
Name "IX" just shortest useful suffix of word UNIX.
Cool! Thanks for your answer. It's surprising to know that the garlic-like fs layout is already used by package managers aside from Nix and Guix.