So, if you were to build a package assuming /opt/nix instead of /nix, the sets of packages would be entirely different. The "can't" is more of a "seems impracti

So, if you were to build a package assuming /opt/nix instead of /nix, the sets of packages would be entirely different. The "can't" is more of a "seems impractical" than "hardcoded assumption in the nix program itself".