The deb can be inspected with "dpkg -c". It contains all the nix-* commands, man pages, some perl, headers and some basic nix library functions. What's missing is a postinst script that setting up the things according to [1] (probably needs updating).
On reflection platform specific packages would be useful to work around issues like [2] which one of my friends hit today. And as Vladimir says for the multi-user setup with the daemon. I'm not sure I have the energy to go around and fix all the packages but maybe debian and arch would be a good start. ~ [1] https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Debian [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/599 On 22 September 2015 at 22:31, Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/22/2015 10:03 PM, zimbatm wrote: > > On the other end, it would be nice if installing nix was just a > > matter of running `curl -L > > https://nixos.org/nix-current/$(uname)-$(arch).tar.bz2 | tar xa -C > > /nix && ln -s /nix/bin/nix-env /usr/local/bin` and then setup the > > profile. > > I think the nix daemon complicates things a bit, as you need to plug it > into the host OS services. > > Vladimir > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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