Matthew Bauer
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With macOS catalina, we can no longer modify the root system volume (#2925). macOS provides a system configuration file in synthetic.conf(5) to create empty root directories. This can be used to mount /nix to a separate volume. As a result, this directory will need to already exist prior to installation. Instead, check for /nix/store and /nix/var for a live Nix installation.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.