Re: packaging of nix

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An update on the efforts:

Running nix commands like `nix run nixpkgs#hello` works. And that's all that works from what I've been able to test. Installing Nix software like `home-manager` fails. You can actually do a `nix run home-manager/master -- init --switch` and you will get a "barebones" initialisation of home-manager activated but as I will discuss later, variables related to activation don't get sourced and it is rendered useless. However, I cannot build my home-manager configuration.

This issue stems from improper initialization of several things. What the Determinate Systems' installer and the official Nix installer do is fetch a tarball from [here](https://releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/), extract it in `/nix/store` and add/modify the shell rcs (for bash, fish and zsh) in `/etc` to source a few files from the nix store that contain environment variables like `NIX_PATH` which is crucial for nix to build anything more than the `hello` package.

As such, I'm looking into [`nix-portable`](https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable) which seems to solve this exact issue for us. Hopefully, I am able to dedicate some time and test it out by the end of next week.

Pratham Patel
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