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It's used as the “system” profile in a bunch of places, so better not touch it. Besides, it doesn't hurt to keep it since it's owned by root any way, so it doesn't have the `chown` problem that the user profiles had and that led to wanting to move them on the client-side.
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
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.
Description
Working fork of Lix - carries the adaptive load-aware build-remote patch. Upstream: gerrit.lix.systems
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