Hi all, >> 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. although it would mean a Big Change, it would (to me personally) make sense to change the *default* to /opt/nix - so that it becomes palatable to all (that is what /opt is for) and everyone can continue to use the binary packages. /nix is shorter, but that is the only real benefit. And given that Nix generates new paths anyway for everything all the time, the transition seems doable. How do others feel about that? Regarding the installer: it would be cool to have something like http://appimage.org, http://orbital-apps.com, http://flatpak.org or http://snapcraft.io instead of a shell script. That would have a SHA that could be verified, etc. On other news: I've just installed Nix on my Jolla Tablet (I was one of the lucky folks who finally got one) with the shell script (downloaded, not piped), and was amazed to find that doing so actually worked amazingly well - in fact as trivial as on any regular system I've installed nix on. I only had to become root ('devel-su') and 'mkdir /nix && chmod -R nemo /nix', run the script and the rest just happened automatically. After installing XWayland (through nix) and "export DISPLAY=:0.0" I'm able to run complex apps like Firefox and Blink. The only caveat so far: I don't yet have input devices working. Any hints much appreciated. Very excited to be able to add all kinds of cool stuff to my Jolla Tablet from the comfort of nix-env... Best, Michiel _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
