Comment by nubinetwork
3 years ago
I'll agree that slots are useful... for whatever reason on arm, uboot and ATF won't compile with the latest binutils and gcc. Slotting lets me switch back to the older stuff to build new firmware, while keeping the rest of the system current.
Isn't nix basically an entire distro based around the idea of slotting? I've never dug into it but it seems an interesting concept, at least.
No idea, I've never used nix because they trampled all over FHS.