| 28 Sep 2022 |
 Solène Rapenne (she/her) | I didn't share these ideas in the meeting because I think it's not worth anything, but here they are: I wondered if it could be possible to ship nix on linux using appimage / flatpak or docker
In some situations, this may be practical, but if we already have statically compiled nix binaries, not sure it's providing anything more.
The big issues are the nix-daemon and its builder users, right? And appimage / flatpak are Linux specific, so not very helpful with regard to nix being available everywhere.
And I don't know if running nix in a docker environment could be helpful. | 17:09:57 |
 Alyssa Ross | I think Nix in docker would definitely be useful, because people expect to be able to try things out in sandboxes | 17:10:45 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | there is already a nix docker image, but it's not made to integrates with the host system nix commands | 17:11:18 |
| Alyssa Ross | AppImage wouldn't really add anything over a static binary, since it's just a way of embedding more stuff into a static binary | 17:11:27 |
| Alyssa Ross | Ah, well then not sure you can really add anything useful to that. I doubt anybody wants to run Nix in docker but with a host Nix daemon. | 17:11:54 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | the idea would be to run the nix daemon IN the docker :) | 17:12:13 |
| Alyssa Ross | ohh | 17:12:28 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | and have environment variables to make use of this nix daemon when you use your nix tools on your system like nix-shell | 17:12:29 |
| Alyssa Ross | I doubt there'd be much advantage to Flatpak? It's mostly used for GUI applications. The only thing I can see it adding over a static binary is that it manages updates, but then so does Docker. | 17:12:52 |
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 abathur | any nix-on-ubuntu user willing to work through https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7110 with the reporter? :) | 21:43:17 |
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| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | could it be possible to be given access to the new installer? my github handle is https://github.com/rapenne-s/ | 14:21:25 |
| 3 Oct 2022 |
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| 6 Oct 2022 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | grahamc (he/him) niksnut I thought we said it could be possible to have access to the installer made by Ana, mkaito and me would like to get a look at it and help | 13:44:32 |
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| Ana | I found the room! Yay | 17:55:35 |
| Ana | We need to throw up a README then I think we can make the repo public | 17:59:59 |
| Ana | I've been a bit caught up in some other unrelated work, sorry | 18:00:33 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | hi! : | 18:00:44 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | * hi! :) | 18:00:46 |
| Solène Rapenne (she/her) | I suppose hoverbear = Ana ? | 18:00:54 |
| Ana | Yes! | 18:00:58 |
