https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827289
--- Comment #1 from Michel Alexandre Salim michel+fdr@sylvestre.me --- Note: - the Emacs-related patch has not been submitted upstream (unlike the other, Fedora-related commits in patch0) - will ask upstream to pull them after the review process is OKed, as Fedora reviewers are likely more familiar with our Emacs packaging guidelines
- This uses a top-level directory (/nix). It's not strictly speaking necessary, but without that one can not use any pre-built Nix binary packages, which all install to /nix/store -- and thus severely reduce the usefulness of nix (think of macports and fink and the dearth of binary packages there)
- to try using this, after installation try doing the following:
$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/ (as root) # nix-channel --update (as any user. might need to start a new login shell first, or source /etc/profile.d/nix.sh first) $ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.bsdgames or the smallest possible package: $ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello