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Sort of true, you can but it require a fhs environment setup

• Filligree 4y ago
  steam-run usually. That gives you a Ubuntu-like environment.
• throwup 4y ago
  I wonder why Nix doesn't give every package a FHS env by default. In 2022 chroot and overlayfs should be available everywhere. Wouldn't that solve a ton of problems?
  • chriswarbo 4y ago
    Nix has no concept of "package". Applications are defined as derivations, but so is everything else (I wouldn't want an entire FHS directory structure for, e.g., a single text file). If you want an FHS, you can get one using a function like buildFHSUserEnv (that's defined in the Nixpkgs project; Nix itself doesn't know or care what FHS is; indeed, Nix will happily run on non-Linux platforms)
  • SuperSandro2000 4y ago
    A FHS adds slight overhead to a package and to launch times. It also shadows part of the file system. For example /lib would probably be different for every other program which would be even more confusing.
    • pxc 4y ago
      They're also not implemented on macOS, since they rely on Linux sandboxing features.
    • kaba0 4y ago
      Plus nix allows more than possible with FHS alone. What if your package has to use multiple versions of a single dependency? You are back to square one, for no good reason.