[Nix-dev] Providing Debian, Arch etc. packages counterproductive?

[Thomas Hunger]

The deb can be inspected with "dpkg -c". It contains all the nix-*
commands, man pages, some perl, headers and some basic nix library
functions. What's missing is a postinst script that setting up the things
according to [1] (probably needs updating).

On reflection platform specific packages would be useful to work around
issues like [2] which one of my friends hit today. And as Vladimir says for
the multi-user setup with the daemon. I'm not sure I have the energy to go
around and fix all the packages but maybe debian and arch would be a good
start.

~

[1]
https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Debian

[2]
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/599


On 22 September 2015 at 22:31, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/22/2015 10:03 PM, zimbatm wrote:
> > On the other end, it would be nice if installing nix was just a
> > matter of running `curl -L
> > https://nixos.org/nix-current/$(uname)-$(arch).tar.bz2 | tar xa -C
> > /nix && ln -s /nix/bin/nix-env /usr/local/bin` and then setup the
> > profile.
>
> I think the nix daemon complicates things a bit, as you need to plug it
> into the host OS services.
>
> Vladimir
>
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