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Nix Package Tool Approved For Availability In Fedora 44 (www.phoronix.com)
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Following approval of the /nix top-level directory with Fedora Linux, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has additionally signed off on allowing the Nix package tool to appear in the Fedora 44 repository.

The change proposal to add the Nix functional package manager developer tool to Fedora has been cleared today by FESCo. With Fedora 44, developers wanting to package for Nix can now have an easier time doing so from Fedora.

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Does it work with SELinux though?

I’ve tried both Nix and Lix and ended up having to disable SELinux for both

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Nix in single user mode can apparently work with SELinux in enforcing mode, although AFAIK binaries installed via Nix can not have SELinux metadata which could be an issue for some programs.

    Determinate Nix claims to have seamless integration with SELinux (unlike upstream Nix and Lix, but it's not a fork, alright whatever you say Eelco). Using that and removing the proprietary garbage their installer also adds might be easier than making regular Nix play nice with it.

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    • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's awesome :) I hope they'll ship a more up-to-date nix than Ubuntu. The nix-bin deb package in the Ubuntu is so old it's better to install nix from the official installer or Determine Systems installer

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