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Nix on MacOS makes a bunch of build users and has a bad habit of touching files that then get touched by MacOS updates, leading to a system that works... then d

by rtpg 2y ago

Nix on MacOS makes a bunch of build users and has a bad habit of touching files that then get touched by MacOS updates, leading to a system that works... then doesn't work.

jen20 2y ago
The only such case I’ve seen was the early betas of Sequoia requiring an extra flag to use higher UIDs for build users.
pmarreck 2y ago
The Determinate Nix installer flavor is supposedly more resilient to this. Have survived at least 1 OS update unscathed with it.