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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by mikepurvis on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:25PM (#27837279)
I experimented with this but eventually gave up. The folder was natively the outer system's filesystem and "shared" inward, and that means things like non-case-sensitivity on Mac or lack of proper permissions on Windows, not to mention the extra sharing overhead whenever running a build or whatever.
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by suction on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:51AM (#27845445)
By "gave up", do you mean the shared-folder idea, or the whole thing, i.e. using a Linux VM for dev from a Mac / Windows host? I'm seriously pondering not having to deal with re-installing my dev environment on the Mac because even with Homebrew and rbenv and such tools, dependency hell is around every corner.\
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by mikepurvis on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:10PM (#27847053)
Gave up on the shared folder thing and contented myself with the whole toolchain being in the inner system.
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