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nix shell is just another shell instance, with new things brought in via $PATH etc. Not a container, still part of your "current computer environment".
by yencabulator 3y ago
nix shell is just another shell instance, with new things brought in via $PATH etc. Not a container, still part of your "current computer environment".
- eikenberry 3y agoSo more like virtualenv?
- yencabulator 3y agoSort of, but instead of being focused around a local directory, everything is stored in /nix/store/<hash>-<name>, declaratively created and reproducible, and there's a whole Linux distro built using that.