[Nix-dev] Providing Debian, Arch etc. packages counterproductive?

[Pjotr Prins]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:15:01PM +0200, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 5 October 2015 at 18:20, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> > IIRC, Nix can't be included in the Debian repo because it violates the FHS (by
> > creating a non-standard directory, /nix).
> 
> Maybe we can move /nix to some FHS compatible sub-directory? Possibly
> /opt/nix? (Only partly joking...)

Chances of Nix going into Debian are fairly slim. After all these
years they had ample time to consider it and I am sure they did ;).

Maybe GNU Guix will pave the way - being a GNU project it is harder to
ignore.

Pj.