MadMaurice

My system is configured that way (by me) and I regularly use sudo -s.

I just want to see if there’s a root shell and not rely on some hidden timeout 🙄

Might be shichi

“Simon says, the defendant must plead guilty”

“Back then we really had to work”

It’s not just a phase, moooom…

That’s a German beer bottle…

So they were aware of it needing repairs and let their president fly anyway? 🤔

Just wait 2 hours before eating.

By train, right?

He looks to the left and has a green hat. How much more political do you want?

Only if you trade for hugs

If you really need to kiss me, do it yourself, coward. Don’t rely on a nasty ass salt lamp /s

Yes. I’m sure.

I’m going with neither.

Wait. That’s a real picture…?

Gelbwurst 🫠

Imho there’s a difference between “people abuse it” and “it is possible for programs to use software that they shouldn’t even find”. Anyway I noticed just now you weren’t the one to actually ask the initial question of whether it’s technically possible, so I apologize for not noticing this earlier. However I think it’s a meaningless endeavor to ponder whether or not it’s possible when that fact is irrelevant.

It’s not that it’s hard to do. It’s that it goes directly against the idea of NixOS since it breaks the separation. With NixOS I can start a shell in a different iteration of my system without switching over the whole system. If I had all my software installed into standard places, that shell might find things it’s not supposed to find.

Bottom line is: Most things work on NixOS out of the box. The PATH variable is adjusted accordingly to what a program is supposed to find, which in my opinion is perfectly reasonable and enough for software to find other software. The dynamic library paths are hardcoded as absolute paths, so software can find it’s libraries. There’s a special dynamic loader for binaries that don’t adhere to this. And if you really need an FHS compliant environment NixOS gives you the tools to create one in a sandbox.

You can either have the perks of NixOS or use an FHS compliant distro. That’s your choice.

Conflict resolution was not my point. Rather the question which the “most recent” between two almost identical installations…

Choosing the most recent one might be impossible if you have multiple installations of the same package with same version but different features enabled during the configure step.