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Rather than "mounting" the store inside an empty virtual filesystem, just return the store as a virtual filesystem. This is more modular. (FWIW, it also supports two long term hopes of mind: 1. More capability-based Nix language mode. I dream of a "super pure eval" where you can only use relative path literals (See #8738), and any `fetchTree`-fetched stuff + the store are all disjoint (none is mounted in another) file systems. 2. Windows, where the store dir may include drive letters, etc., and is thus unsuitable to be the prefix of any `CanonPath`s. ) Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation and first steps
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Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
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Contributing
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Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
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License
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