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Just my experience with Nix, two or three years back: I went to the Nix website for the install instructions, saw something like "curl | sh", said "what? no way
by abecedarius 5y ago
Just my experience with Nix, two or three years back: I went to the Nix website for the install instructions, saw something like "curl | sh", said "what? no way" and used the alternative non-recommended out-of-date instructions, which turned into a full-day rabbit hole until it would build. A year later I went through this again for another machine, and this time just gave up.
So I would say curl|sh is probably the way to go, which I guess means I'd only want to install it into a container. But I do really like the idea of Nix.
- smilliken 5y agoI grabbed a copy of that shell script, reviewed it, and committed it to git. It's extra nice to save a specific cooy of it so you get the same version of the nix cli tools across the team. It works with different versions just fine, but still better to standardize.