Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Pjotr Prins 写道：
> It is safe[r?] to use two stores and two daemons. Virtue of 
> isolation :)

I agree.  There is no advantage to sharing the store that I can 
imagine is worth the risk and burden of compiling your entire Guix 
or Nix world from scratch because you can't use substitutes.

The Guix manual says:
> Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same 
> store between
> both. To do so, you must pass configure not only the same 
> --with-store-dir
> value, but also the same --localstatedir value. The latter is 
> essential because
> it specifies where the database that stores metadata about the 
> store is
> located, among other things. The default values for Nix are
> --with-store-dir=/nix/store and --localstatedir=/nix/var. Note 
> that
> --disable-daemon is not required if your goal is to share the 
> store with Nix.

Unless somebody objects, I'd like to (wait for it) nix this from 
the manual entirely.

It may or may not be true still, and even if it is, it's nothing 
more than a random Fun Fact that doesn't warrant encouragement in 
official documentation.

Going once,

T G-R

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