[Nix-dev] Malicious installation methods

[Yui Hirasawa]

>>> 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).

Is the nix root dir configurable? Would it be that horrible to have
/opt/nix or /var/lib/nix or something else be the nix root on Debian?