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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] install-qa-check.d: Support QA{,_STRICT}_INSTALL_PATHS variables (bug 67090
From:       William Hubbs <williamh () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2018-11-13 21:21:38
Message-ID: 20181113212138.GA28564 () whubbs1 ! gaikai ! biz
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:57:47AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/13/2018 01:21 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> > 
> > What's inherently wrong about nix having a file store under /nix? Is
> > this purely about FHS?
> > 
> 
> It goes against not only the FHS, but against our existing policies and
> common sense. There's no reason to expect that path to even be writable.
> And nix stores everything there, so if you have / mounted on a smaller
> partition with e.g. /home and /var mounted elsewhere, then it's going to
> fill the disk up with junk that emerge won't remove for you.

I'm with Zac on this, we should install the way upstream directs, or if
we have that strong of an aversion to it, we should open a bug upstream
to fix it.

Thanks,

William

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