>>>>> True, of course. But, there is a class of software projects which will >>>>> likely never be "packaged" by package managers - namely, other package >>>>> managers. Nix falls into this class, along with, for example, NPM, >>>>> Brew, Oh-My-Zsh, and others. >>>> >>>> What reason would there to not package other package managers? >>> >>> IIRC, Debian won't package Nix because it violates the FHS (by requiring >>a /nix >>> directory). >> >> Is the nix root dir configurable? Would it be that horrible to have >> /opt/nix or /var/lib/nix or something else be the nix root on Debian? > > It's not strictly required, but it would mean losing out on all the binary > packages provided by the CI.
Aren't they built in a chroot like Guix does? Why would anything break just because you change where they are installed? _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
