On: Hacking anything with GNU Guix

[nextos]

Nix provides FHS environment sandboxes, which are also a great escape hatch, or an alternative for quick packaging: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-fhs-environment...

[pxc → nextos]

I think nonguix also uses equivalent machinery for its Steam package: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/blob/master/nongnu/pack...

Maybe there are docs on repurposing that as a general packaging escape hatch, which someone more familiar with nonguix could point to in a reply.

Apparently there is an rpm-ostree-friendly RPM build of Nix that can be used to install Nix on Silverblue as well: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-installers/pull/8

It includes some code to get around the group/user management quirks that some other commenters have noted b0rked the Guix installer with Silverblue, so perhaps it gives an outline of how to install Guix on Silverblue for a hacker who'd like to try it :)

[podiki → pxc]

See my comment above about adding a general FHS container to Guix itself; it works, just need to put the final touches on the patches.

[pxc → podiki]

Awesome! That is great to hear.