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Re:NixOS Linux by Lethalman on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:32PM (#9708975)
There's a /bin/sh because libc needs it, but we're going to remove that one too in the future somehow.

But /usr/bin/env is in nixos to make it easy for people to run scripts. But packages never use /usr/bin/env, it's just there for convenience.

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Re:NixOS Linux by millstone on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:47PM (#9709048)
Ok, if env is supplied then scripts can at least use it to locate Python, etc. which makes a lot of sense. The text made it sound like these directories did not exist at all.
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