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minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoHow do you separate Nix programs from the rest of the system?
minus-squarepimeys@lemmy.nauk.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-24 months agoIt creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs. https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies You can also create a container: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix: https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59 The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoThat’s very interesting, I was aware of how NixOS separated dependency versions but I didn’t know it natively supported containers.
How do you separate Nix programs from the rest of the system?
It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.
https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies
You can also create a container:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers
Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:
https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59
The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.
That’s very interesting, I was aware of how NixOS separated dependency versions but I didn’t know it natively supported containers.