<qyliss>
(context: I post three (small) patches and 7 minutes after posting them cole has reviewed them all)
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<Robotic_Victory>
What a fabulous project. I was excited to read Thomas Leonard's blog post on it. I'm a web developer, so I don't know of what use I can be, but this is eexactly the project I wanted to start.
<Robotic_Victory>
I was looking at NixOS as a tool to create reproducible and upgradeable Qubes-style containers for privacy isolation.
<qyliss>
Hi Robotic_Victory :)
<Robotic_Victory>
aloha
<Robotic_Victory>
I also like Graham Christensen's blog post on wiping your root partition as part of every build to ensure a clean slate every time. https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
<qyliss>
Yes, that's a good one
<qyliss>
Oh, he's not in here any more. He used to be.
<Robotic_Victory>
Being able to automatically reset an installation when it gets "burned" is interesting.
<qyliss>
Yeah.
<qyliss>
DispVMs in Qubes are also really cool for that.
<v0idify>
adding to this: testing packages on non-standalone or template VMs will only work on that boot of the VM
<v0idify>
will only save*
<moonloo>
what is preventing you from overlaying tmpfs over root and having a read only but writable rootfs every boot? everything just works but every reboot you are back to your choice rootfs.
<v0idify>
you would need overlayfs too no?
<moonloo>
i actually had to do that recently for a vmm so that the same rootfs could be reused. not a fan of non standard things like nixos where things break or dont work and for what.
<moonloo>
the way i did it is by replacing init with a script, it does overlayfs and pivot root to it.