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IMO part of the blame also lies with the way the nix store was designed. Nix can only work in the way you would want with the store located at /nix/store. This
by hamandcheese 3y ago
IMO part of the blame also lies with the way the nix store was designed. Nix can only work in the way you would want with the store located at /nix/store. This misfeature makes single-user, less privileged nix quite hard to pull off even on Linux.
- grhmc 3y agoLuckily newer builds of nix can be made statically that live in ~ and use namespaces to make it work. However, that doesn’t work on macOS at all :(.
- pxc 3y agoThis seems like an overstatement to me, at least when it comes to the practicalities rather than the machinery. Single-user, unprivileged Nix wasn't very hard for me as an undergraduate student a decade ago, and there are much better options for achieving that nowadays.