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I second this. Any tool which creates its own directory in the filesystem root (and cannot run from any other location) is inherently doing it wrong by any meas
by danudey 6y ago
I second this. Any tool which creates its own directory in the filesystem root (and cannot run from any other location) is inherently doing it wrong by any measure.
- pmarreck 6y agoThat's not necessarily true because it ensures that you own an entire namespace separate from the OS install, which in Nix's case makes a lot of design sense given its use case(s).
- soraminazuki 6y agoBy your own words, tool like apt, yum, and pacman would all be "doing it wrong." It's just wrong to blindly apply any rules without considering the various presumptions that justifies it. Specifically, the general advice of not creating directories in the filesystem root mainly applies to individual packages and is inadequate for system-level package managers.