Re:My NixOS Desktop Flow
by Wicher on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:00PM
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I don't have any OSX boxes, but wouldn't bind-mounting the real the /some/where/nix to /nix solve the realpath problem? No need to write to / either (as you would have to do with the symlink approach).
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If it is possible, then I think it should work. I believe this might be the way they are planning to go, because someone mentioned about a separate partition.
Honestly, I think they should just relocate it to a different location that can be persisted and rebuild the packages. I don't think people care about the location as long as they don't have to recompile every single thing. This could also be useful to catch all bugs where /nix was assumed.