Article 70RFW Path Cleared For Nix Package Manager On Fedora With /nix Approved

Path Cleared For Nix Package Manager On Fedora With /nix Approved

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#70RFW)
There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...
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