From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Daniel Schäfer" <git@danielschaefer.me>
Subject: Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:00:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736ghh5lz.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r241yiow.fsf@nckx>
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> The Guix manual says:
>> Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same
>> store between
>> both. To do so, you must pass configure not only the same
>> --with-store-dir
>> value, but also the same --localstatedir value. The latter is
>> essential because
>> it specifies where the database that stores metadata about the store
>> is
>> located, among other things. The default values for Nix are
>> --with-store-dir=/nix/store and --localstatedir=/nix/var. Note that
>> --disable-daemon is not required if your goal is to share the store
>> with Nix.
>
> Unless somebody objects, I'd like to (wait for it) nix this from the
> manual entirely.
I don’t object to removing it. In fact, I’d be happy to see it vanish.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 2:13 Compatibility between Nix and Guix Daniel Schäfer
2019-09-26 12:19 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-09-27 13:25 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2019-09-27 20:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-09-28 15:38 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-28 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
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