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Re:One Week of NixOS by setheron on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:30AM (#25026808)
To be fair, the packages have to be patched because many applications assume FHS.

The fact that Nix ditches FHS is so what's appealing about it unfortunately there's a huge body of work that assumes it.

Most of the patches though are making libraries or binaries fully referenced from nix store rather than from the PATH or some other implicit state.

Re:One Week of NixOS by kris-s on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:44AM (#25026908)
What is FHS?
Re:One Week of NixOS by pstch on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:45AM (#25026917)
> The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions.[1] It is maintained by the Linux Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard