[Nix-dev] Using nix under debian stable

[Michael Raskin]

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Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Ask him to make a hard link. You can also do away with the
> pre-compiled packages. I find it is no problem and you can share
> precompiled binaries with other systems as long as the path is the
> same. BTW current server farm pre-compiled packages are useless if you
> are compiling against other kernel headers (like I do).

1. Directory hardlink - even if supported by FS - may be regarded with
even more suspicion..

2. Actually, you can get a lot without using old headers. Stdenv branch
currently contains a coreutils patch (trunk contains the patch but
doesn't apply it) to use newer kernel headers with an older kernel. It
allowed me to build and run CLisp and TeXLive, for example .



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