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Re:20 Years of Nix by tadfisher on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:51PM (#35222199)
Bind-mount, namespaces and cgroups are runtime properties, completely orthogonal to the problem Nix (the build system/package manager) is meant to solve. NixOS is the configuration layer on top that encodes those properties via systemd units, and that is where you'll find the concept of a "service" and where you can isolate the runtime parts of the system.
Re:20 Years of Nix by vilunov on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:05AM (#35232556)
It's not orthogonal, Nix goes far out of its way to fix compositionality issues with hacks and dubious conventions, when instead namespaces (bind-mounts) could be used to deliver expected environments.