I Was Wrong about Nix

Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by kohtatsu on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:51PM (#22295888)

I'm lost, why does nix care so much about things being in /nix and not, for example, /usr/local/nix?

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Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by infinisil on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:32PM (#22296082)

- /nix has been the (default) location for at least 15 years without problems, changing this now just because Apple messed with this would be very strange

- With Nix, every path in /nix/store has its own ./bin, ./share, ./lib, etc. As such, putting /nix anywhere but in / doesn't make much sense

- And honestly, it's just short, fresh and distinctly different. The path symbolizes that Nix isn't bound by the conventions of other distro's

And problems with changing this now:

- It would be a huge amount of effort, there's many places where this location is assumed, not only in code, but also by people

- Finding the workforce to actually do this change will be near impossible, as the only benefit is a slightly easier installation for the latest macOS version, which is not Nix's main platform

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