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I wanted to use Nix on Mac, but the only supported setup is the one that puts a persistent daemon in the background, which just doesn't sit well with me for a p
by yakubin 4y ago
I wanted to use Nix on Mac, but the only supported setup is the one that puts a persistent daemon in the background, which just doesn't sit well with me for a package manager – something that I use maybe once a month, maybe even less. I don't understand why they didn't go with setuid.
- ParetoOptimal 4y agoI feel like your comment could lead yo valuable discussion on the Nix repo's issues or https://discourse.nixos.org/ https://discourse.nixos.org/
- footlooseboss 4y agocheckout https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox > Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells for development it uses nix, and they just added `devbox global` > Devbox Global allows you to add packages to a global devbox.json. This is useful for installing a standard set of tools you want to use across multiple Devbox Projects. You can also use Devbox Global to install and manage packages on your Host OS, as a substitute for tools like brew or apt-get. https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/releases/tag/0.4.0 https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/releases/tag/0.4.0