[Nix-dev] questions on nix trickery

[Domen Kožar]

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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> с уважениeм / respectfully,
> Косырев Сергей
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