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Does Nix's break from FHS cause problems? (lemy.lol)

submitted 9 months ago by matcha_addict@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know that a lot of what Nix does is working around its break from FHS, but I can imagine there are still things that seep through. Are there any unsolvable problems due to this?

I saw on this post that it is possible to use FHS on Nix. Does this solve all potential issues then?

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not that it's hard to do. It's that it goes directly against the idea of NixOS since it breaks the separation.

That's what I said:

I get that they don't want to do it lest people abuse it instead of using nix but there isn't a technical challenge that can't be overcome.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Imho there's a difference between "people abuse it" and "it is possible for programs to use software that they shouldn't even find". Anyway I noticed just now you weren't the one to actually ask the initial question of whether it's technically possible, so I apologize for not noticing this earlier. However I think it's a meaningless endeavor to ponder whether or not it's possible when that fact is irrelevant.