[Nix-dev] Re: OpenSSH impurity

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> To me, it feels like Nix packages should ignore all paths outside of
> /nix/store and /nix/var.

For Bash, this is inconvenient on NixOS, because we still want it to
read some system-wide bashrc whose path may not be known at the time
Bash is compiled.

However, I agree that blindly letting it access /etc/bashrc is cheating.

Thanks,
Ludo'.