Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Luke Faraone wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 20:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > > If anything, they probably already know > > how Nix works and are expecting it to use those paths. There doesn't seem > > to be much drawback in this carefully-chosen lack of compliance with the > > FHS. > > > > I don't

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-12 Thread Kai Harries
Thanks to everybody for your input. I will add a lintian override to Nix. Kai

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-03 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 20:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > If anything, they probably already know > how Nix works and are expecting it to use those paths. There doesn't seem > to be much drawback in this carefully-chosen lack of compliance with the > FHS. > > I don't think it's worth writing an

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir"): > I think this is a case where we should waive FHS for this package, due to > the unique nature of this package. I agree for the reasons Russ gives. > I don't think it's worth writing an explicit Policy exceptio

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Kai Harries writes: > I have filled an ITP for the Nix package-manager [1]. During packaging > lintian pointed out [2] that Nix relies on a non-standard-toplevel-dir. > The Nix package-manager keeps by default all packages in the path > `/nix/store`. In principal this path ca

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Kai, > I have filled an ITP for the Nix package-manager [1]. As it happens, I did some work on this in early 2017: https://salsa.debian.org/lamby/pkg-nix .. but I ran out of bandwidth to persue it. I believe others on this list took up the challenge too. Regards, -- ,''`. :

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:10:06PM +0100, Kai Harries wrote: > [4] https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf This is an interesting text. It shows that the author has read the FHS but chose to ignore it. The only ref to FHS is in the following text: """ For instance, storing components in an

Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-02 Thread Kai Harries
Dear Debian Developers and Maintainers, I have filled an ITP for the Nix package-manager [1]. During packaging lintian pointed out [2] that Nix relies on a non-standard-toplevel-dir. The Nix package-manager keeps by default all packages in the path `/nix/store`. In principal this path can