[Nix-dev] Malicious installation methods

Teo Klestrup teozkr at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 23:20:06 CEST 2016


It's not strictly required, but it would mean losing out on all the binary
packages provided by the CI.
On 17 Jun 2016 20:54, "Yui Hirasawa" <yui at cock.li> 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).
>
> 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?
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