<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">> Nope, not at all:
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> $ nix run --store ~/nix nixpkgs.nix nixpkgs.bashInteractive
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> This will create an user-owned nix store, which does not require root
> privileges, and spawn a shell where this store will be mounted to /nix.</pre><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s also worth pointing out that nix has tooling for building deb/rpm packages (see <a href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixpkgs/Building_RPM_DEB_with_nixpkgs" class="">here</a>). I think it might be worth investigating the use of this tooling to create a build system that minimizes duplication of effort between Neurofedora and Neurodebian by providing universal functional specifications for the two major Linux distro families. This would also have the effect of readily providing Nix packages that power users can then readily hack on (i.e., to use different compilers, take advantage of MKL, use different configure flags, etc).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Furthermore, Mozilla Science actually has a nix tutorial <a href="https://mozillafoundation.github.io/2017-fellows-sf/re-papers/" class="">here</a> and how it can be used to facilitate reproducible science.</div></body></html>