Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

[Suggestion] Nix/NixOS containers #1604

Open
Kezkch opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 0 comments
Open

[Suggestion] Nix/NixOS containers #1604

Kezkch opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 0 comments
Labels
enhancement New feature or request

Comments

@Kezkch
Copy link

Kezkch commented Nov 5, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Nix and NixOS are entirely different beasts and there are circumstances where it would be beneficial to have NixOS on your system in a containerized format. Nix when installed tends to embed itself into your system in a manner that is difficult to remove and does not leverage the full strength of Nix and it's declarative format. Some services you may want to run under Nix may require a NixOS module to use which can significantly limit how Nix is deployed. I believe that by providing a NixOS container, you can address the shortcomings of using Nix on a non-NixOS Linux distribution while allowing people to more easily leverage Nix through NixOS modules.

Describe the solution you'd like
Support for running Nix/NixOS container images.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've attempted to use a Nix/NixOS container image in Docker/Podman software made to make it easier to interface and use containerization, though I've found that no solutions come close to Distrobox.

Additional context
Nix isn't supported on RHEL-derivative Distributions that make of SELLinux which significantly limit where it can be deployed, supporting Nix/NixOS containers in Distrobox could help in that respect.

@Kezkch Kezkch added the enhancement New feature or request label Nov 5, 2024
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant