alt Hacker NewsDebian, like any other legacy distro, mush became declarative, because the '80s model of manual deploy and the absurd pain of D/I and Preseed must end.
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kakwa_ • today at 10:08 AM
In the end, Nix is just a thin veneer on this stuff.
Given how many quick & dirty sed patching or exec commands I've seen in the few nix package/modules I've read, I would not exactly bet my life on it being completely idempotent & reproducible.
bootcrew have bootc Containerfiles for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and openSUSE:
https://github.com/bootcrew/mono