On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, at 11:36 PM, Yui Hirasawa wrote: > >>>>> 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?
Because it invalidates all the store references. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
