[Nix-dev] Malicious installation methods

[Yui Hirasawa]

>>>>> True, of course. But, there is a class of software projects which will
>>>>> likely never be "packaged" by package managers - namely, other package
>>>>> managers. Nix falls into this class, along with, for example, NPM,
>>>>> Brew, Oh-My-Zsh, and others.
>>>>
>>>> What reason would there to not package other package managers?
>>>
>>> IIRC, Debian won't package Nix because it violates the FHS (by requiring
>>a /nix
>>> directory).
>>
>> Is the nix root dir configurable? Would it be that horrible to have
>> /opt/nix or /var/lib/nix or something else be the nix root on Debian?
>
> It's not strictly required, but it would mean losing out on all the binary
> packages provided by the CI.

Aren't they built in a chroot like Guix does? Why would anything break
just because you change where they are installed?