On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 20:28, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > If anything, they probably already know > how Nix works and are expecting it to use those paths. There doesn't seem > to be much drawback in this carefully-chosen lack of compliance with the > FHS. > > I don't think it's worth writing an explicit Policy exception for this, > since it's a single edge case. Instead, I think it's a good use of a > Lintian override documenting what's going on. Obviously, if Nix becomes > really popular in the long run, we can then go back and write this into > Policy.
This also is the case with snapd, which uses `/snap` in all other distributions. We currently override it, but the issue was brought up in a bug report.[1] I think the same arguments apply to both Nix and snapd; but perhaps two is not yet numerous enough to warrant documenting in policy. [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/852199 Cheers, Luke Faraone