[Nix-dev] questions on nix trickery

[Kosyrev Serge]

Alan Belew <spacehitchhiker42 at gmail.com> writes:
> I have a few questions on the trickery nix uses in its package system.
>
> 1. whenever nix builds a package from source, how does it make sure
> all the outputs end up in a folder in the store?
>
> 2. how does nix make sure that programs can find the libraries they
> need? from what i read i got the impression that nix puts symlinks to
> the store in lib /lib or /usr/lib directories, but i can't find
> anything like that on my os.

Adam, these questions sound like something that can be answered by the
Nix Pills series by Luca Bruno, in particular:

  - http://lethalman.blogspot.ru/2014/07/nix-pill-7-working-derivation.html
  - http://lethalman.blogspot.ru/2014/08/nix-pill-8-generic-builders.html
  - http://lethalman.blogspot.ru/2014/08/nix-pill-9-automatic-runtime.html

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с уважениeм / respectfully,
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