Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore

Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by grhmc on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:39PM (#38019260)

> Unfortunately, it also still wants to make system-wide changes on macOS.

For context, these changes are:

1. Creating and mounting a volume at /nix for the store

2. A daemon used for isolating build environments

3. A zshrc / fish / bash hook to load a few environment variables (PATH, mostly)

4. (new!) an on-boot Launch Daemon to keep those profile hooks working between upgrades.

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by oldbbsnickname on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:06PM (#38019508)

No sale. Too much complexity and too many side-effects.

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by grhmc on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:14PM (#38019562)

Good thing we don't have anything for sale yet :').

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by ctvo on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:08PM (#38020000)

I'll bite: what do you use instead?

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by duped on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:36PM (#38021346)

The point is that there are few side effects

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