[Nix-dev] Malicious installation methods

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 06/17/2016 08:01 PM, Yui Hirasawa wrote:

>> True, of course. But, there is a class of software projects which will
>> likely never be "packaged" by package managers - namely, other package
>> managers. Nix falls into this class, along with, for example, NPM,
>> Brew, Oh-My-Zsh, and others.
> 
> What reason would there to not package other package managers?

IIRC, Debian won't package Nix because it violates the FHS (by requiring a /nix
directory).

> There is no reason to not package your package manager other than
> laziness and desire to not have adoption. Especially Nix and Guix are
> package managers that would make a lot of sense to package for other
> distributions to make the adoption easier.

We do have Fedora / Ubuntu / Debian packages, but they're no longer advertised
because they're not well tested.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/