Bug#877331: sponsorship-requests: nix/1.1.15 (ITP 877019) -- Purely functional package manager

[Kai Harries <kai.harries@gmail.com>]

Hi,

itd <itd@firemail.cc> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Kai Harries:
>> The depender will break if the dependency is not at the path where it
>> used to be at build-time (by default /nix/store/...). All software
>> deployed by nix contains the full path to its dependencies. And all
>> dependencies are available inside the nix-store. The idea is to rely on
>> nothing that is outside the nix-store. 
>
> would `mount --bind /var/nix /nix` help? In other words, Debian package
> nix uses /var/nix. Additionally, the package ships a Debian.README which
> states that users need to either bind mount /var/nix to /nix or to
> disable binary downloads.

Yes, bind mounts should work. I had started a discussion on d-devel [1]
on the topic of the non-standard-toplevel-dir, and from there I got the
impression that a lintian override is the way to go.

>From the user experience view I would prefer not to resort to a
bind-mount, but I guess your proposal should work and is the next best
thing I can imagine.

Regards Kai

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/01/msg00010.html