The Determinate Nix Installer

Re:The Determinate Nix Installer by bokchoi on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:46PM (#34960306)

Thank you, this is great! I love the focus on OSX support and on uninstalling. As a nix newbie, it can be difficult to resolve some issues and sometimes re-installing is the simplest option.

Is the end result of installing via the bash install script and this new installer the same? Can I use the new tool to uninstall nix installed via the bash script?

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Re:The Determinate Nix Installer by grhmc on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:51PM (#34960379)

Thanks! The end result is not quite the same. For example, we turn on flakes, nix-command, and make a couple other minor tweaks to the Nix configuration to make what we think are user-friendly improvements. For example: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/blob/mai...

Our installer also supports some environments that the upstream installer has a harder time with.

The new installer can't _yet_ uninstall a Nix installed from the upstream installer, but our upcoming work on "curing" will bring that.

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Re:The Determinate Nix Installer by Laaas on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:47PM (#34962346)

I do wonder why auto-optimise-store isn't enabled by default. Is there a historical reason for it? Would Eelco accept a PR making it the default?

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