[Nix-dev] Re: Toward a Purer stdenv

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Wed Aug 17 21:37:32 +0200 2011:
>> I've been thinking about creating a nixpkgs branch to find and eliminate
>> some of the remaining impurities in the Linux stdenv.
> 
> "linux stdenv" ? What are you referring to exactly?
> 
> Impurities:
> - network access
We can disable any network access in build chroot.
> 
> - the store location (for completeness)
This is OK since changing store path changes all hashes. But
 - Build directory.
What about using some standard build directory name for chroot build? This 
should not be hard to implement.
> 
> - of course the user name building a package
Can be faked in chroot builds as well.