It's the same approach used by nix and guix. Nix is moderately successful. I'm typing this on a laptop running nixos :)
https://nixos.org/
https://guix.gnu.org/
If you're interested in this sort of thing, this is an excellent paper on build system design, although it focuses more on the properties of the build graph than on how the graph is constructed:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
It's the same approach used by nix and guix. Nix is moderately successful. I'm typing this on a laptop running nixos :)
https://nixos.org/
https://guix.gnu.org/
If you're interested in this sort of thing, this is an excellent paper on build system design, although it focuses more on the properties of the build graph than on how the graph is constructed:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...