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mjhoy | 5 years ago

It's funny, I just had to do this a few days ago.

This comment has worked for me on two machines: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-539570...

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soraminazuki|5 years ago

There's just so many problems with that approach:

1. You have to create a separate volume just to install a package manager, which is a poor user experience

2. A separate volume means FileVault won't work out of the box

3. The volume can be mounted only after GUI apps are brought up

4. Restoring after sleep might fail because of 3

All of these are mentioned in the Github issue, but it might be hard to find because it requires so many clicks and scrolling to view the whole thread.

mjhoy|5 years ago

1 — Sure. But Nix isn't exactly the most friendly package manager to begin with. I wouldn't recommend it if you're not comfortable creating volumes.

2 — Could you explain? Mine is on and working, I didn't need to do anything else.

3 — Is this if you have login items that need nix to be available? I don't have this so I haven't noticed.

4 — I've never run into this, but again I might just not use Nix for the kind of things that would cause issues.