Open vanzod opened 4 years ago
@bartoldeman Anything you have to add here?
Looks ok but could elaborate a bit more, by adding a reference to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/44144 and for "the linker" you can be more specific and say "the dynamic linker/loader $EPREFIX/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
"
@bartoldeman, thanks for the feedback. I have updated my comment.
Currently there is no documentation on why the project has chosen Gentoo Prefix over Nix. This would be useful information to retain.
A few notes on the topic from a Slack conversation with Bart Oldeman at Compute Canada:
nix-shell
, but that would require users to learn how to use it. For example, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/44144.$EPREFIX/etc/ld.so.cache
with Gentoo Prefix might improve overall performance thanks to the lower overhead for the dynamic linker/loader$EPREFIX/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
to locate the required dynamic libraries.