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Hello,
I've just submitted a review request[1] for Nix[2], a purely
functional package manager.
Nix uses the /nix directory by default for essential operations -- its
package store, for instance, is located at /nix/store by default, and
it's local state in /nix/var.
These can be overridden at compile time, however, doing so makes it
impossible to use pre-built binaries[3] provided in Nix channels
(repositories).
As such, it seems that this is a justifiable case for creating a new
directory under root -- cf. the introduction of /run, as documented
in Fedora 15's release notes[4]:
This change is compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard,
which allows distributions to create new directories in the root
hierarchy as long as there is careful consideration of the
consequences.
I posit that compatibility with a vast amount of pre-built binaries,
and the reduced usefulness of the tool without this compatibility
(anyone who has used MacPorts, with its lack of pre-built binaries,
would sympathize).
Should I create an FPC ticket for this?
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827289
[2]: http://nixos.org/nix/
[3]: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2657151/download/1/manual/#id523917
[4]:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_SysAdmin.html#id2993828
Thanks in advance,
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