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I use nix on both mac and linux, also on CI where homebrew is especially brittle

• lifty 2y ago
  Don’t you have to disable SIP to use nix on macOS?
  • Cloudef 2y ago
    No. Even though SIP is slightly annoying because you can't have strace equivalent with it.
  • socksy 2y ago
    No, see https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/installation/installing-binary#macos-installation https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/installation/installing-bina...
    • FireBeyond 2y ago
      If there's any hope of Nix seeing widespread adoption as a Mac package manager, uh... this link kinda shoots it down a lot. From that: - create a new APFS volume for your Nix store - update /etc/synthetic.conf to direct macOS to create a "synthetic" empty root directory to mount your volume - specify mount options for the volume in /etc/fstab: rw: read-write, noauto: prevent the system from auto-mounting the volume (so the LaunchDaemon mentioned below can control mounting it, and to avoid masking problems with that mounting service), nobrowse: prevent the Nix Store volume from showing up on your desktop; also keeps Spotlight from spending resources to index this volume - if you have FileVault enabled: generate an encryption password, put it in your system Keychain, use it to encrypt the volume - create a system LaunchDaemon to mount this volume early enough in the boot process to avoid problems loading or restoring any programs that need access to your Nix store Even as someone who knows how to do all that... no thanks.
      • Cloudef 2y ago
        The installer does it all for you. Theres even graphical installer https://determinate.systems/posts/graphical-nix-installer/ https://determinate.systems/posts/graphical-nix-installer/