[Nix-dev] Using Nixpkgs outside of NixOS

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Thu May 29 18:58:43 CEST 2014


Hi,

On 29/05/14 18:34, Wout Mertens wrote:

> Another issue I just remembered is that of setuid binaries. NixOS has a
> mechanism for it, and it could just as easily be used elsewhere. Without it, you
> can't easily use qemu for example.

Why? Qemu does not need to be setuid.

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