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Installation instructions should mention installing Nix is not invasive #100

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Blaisorblade opened this issue Oct 4, 2016 · 2 comments
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Installation instructions should mention installing Nix is not invasive #100

Blaisorblade opened this issue Oct 4, 2016 · 2 comments

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@Blaisorblade
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I considered installing Nix to test Stack's nix integration (commercialhaskell/stack#2537 (comment)) but was afraid it'd set up a different GHC and create potential configuration conflicts. Given my upcoming deadlines, it makes sense to be most conservative (I've used Gentoo as my main Linux distro time ago and customized lots of it, but these days I have another job to focus on).

It turns out it only installs nix- prefixed binaries, so there's no such risk, but the download page could tell me that.

More in general, I'd like to know what happens by installing Nix before I do decide to install it.
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So it turns out that installing Nix is invasive, as it literally breaks Homebrew by setting SSL_CERT_FILE, see NixOS/nix#921.

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garbas commented Mar 16, 2020

closing since this discussion was moved to other repos.

@garbas garbas closed this as completed Mar 16, 2020
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