[Nix-dev] ~/bin in PATH if exists

[Sander van der Burg - EWI]

You can also write Nix expressions for these scripts and install them into your personal Nix profile? I have to admit that this is a little bit of extra work, but it is also not that difficult either.
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From: Lluís Batlle i Rossell [viric at viric.name]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:47 PM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: Florian Friesdorf; nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl; simons at cryp.to
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] ~/bin in PATH if exists

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:32:11PM +0000, Sander van der Burg wrote:
> Why is this "personal bin" directory needed? I don't see the point actually.
>
> I mean users in NixOS have their own private Nix profile to install their binaries in, right?

I have there scripts based on #!/bin/sh. And also some binaries, whose
dependencies may be garbage collected :)