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

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:56:44PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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?

Do you want an explicit impurity? :)