I’m currently writing a toy Nix/Guix called Bramble to learn more about the inner workings of both systems. One of the features that I wanted to include in my version was “binary relocation”. Both Nix and Guix have hardcoded store paths that are baked into all the outputs that they produce. If we take a look at part of a simple nix Derivation you’ll see that these paths are hardcoded directly in the file. This is an important component of Nix. Instead of searching for the default shar...
