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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:57:47AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 11/13/2018 01:21 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > What's inherently wrong about nix having a file store under /nix? Is |
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> > this purely about FHS? |
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> It goes against not only the FHS, but against our existing policies and |
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> common sense. There's no reason to expect that path to even be writable. |
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> And nix stores everything there, so if you have / mounted on a smaller |
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> partition with e.g. /home and /var mounted elsewhere, then it's going to |
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> fill the disk up with junk that emerge won't remove for you. |
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I'm with Zac on this, we should install the way upstream directs, or if |
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we have that strong of an aversion to it, we should open a bug upstream |
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to fix it. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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