You're not _wrong_, but I'm not sure that those reasons really mean anything. They were all new and arbitrary at some point and we're a long way from Unix. > i

You're not _wrong_, but I'm not sure that those reasons really mean anything. They were all new and arbitrary at some point and we're a long way from Unix. > it is completely flaunting established Unix norms. Also, _nix_ is completely flaunting established Unix norms in more ways than one. /nix is where all of the nix stores go, the immutable bundles that get pieced together to form all of the stuff you install. It could go in /var/nix or wherever, it doesn't really matter. But putting it in /nix is kind of nice in that it's so different from the purposes of the rest of the filesystem. /nix doesn't behave like the rest of a normal Linux system, so it is separate. You can still symlink from /usr/local/bin/foo -> /nix/store/abcdef-1.1.0/bin/foo so the rest of your system has the same expectations.