[Nix-dev] Re: NixOS has a non-conforming value for _CS_PATH. Do we care?

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Wed Aug 31 18:56:44 CEST 2011


Saluton,

Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com> skribis:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:38:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> By definition, systems on which GNU libc is built off Nixpkgs are called
>> “NixOS”, so there’s nothing to worry about here.  :-)
>
> Any GNU/Linux that used nixpkgs would be using the GNU libc in nixpkgs, and not
> 'their'. We use the 'pure' stdenvLinux in any GNU/Linux (for the supported
> platforms).

Oh, right; apologies for the confusion.

However, we have no way to distinguish between NixOS and a pure stdenv
on some other GNU/Linux distro, do we?

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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