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5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2021-06-19 · latest 2023-11-30

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  1. There is also nix-portable ( https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable ), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your…
    comment by matrss · 2023-11-30 · in Hysp – An independent package manager
  2. …There is a project called nix-portable though that I've seen some HPC users report success with: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable > Applications packaged with Nix also require special treatment to run in Nix environment, with paths…
  3. …to it on OSX. I wonder if you took a look at some of the modifications done by portable-nix ( https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable ), most important ones being: a) Allowing user to choose the location of the nix folder (for example…
    comment by ingenieroariel · 2023-02-27 · in The Determinate Nix Installer
  4. …bind mounts and so on. There's also a nice user friendly tool that does exactly this [1]. [1]: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2022-09-02 · in We want to make Nix better
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    Nix Portable – Static, Permissionless, Installation-Free, Pre-Configured
    story by ssth · 2021-06-19 · 0 comments