>>>>>>> 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.
Seems like nix needs some redesign then. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
