Compability with KaOS

[ShalokShalom]

Hi there :)

I use kaosx.us as my distribution and installed nix via your shell script.

It seems like the symlinks to the actual binaries get randomly eaten:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nodejs
°installed

npm install -g elchemy
°installed

elchemy compile
zsh: command not found: elchemy

npm install -g elchemy
zsh: command not found: npm

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nodejs
zsh: command not found: nix-env

find /nix/store -name 'nix-env' -type f  
/nix/store/6p2gambjac7xdkd2a7w1dsxdk1q5cq4d-nix-2.0/bin/nix-env

[ShalokShalom]

I found that npm installs in its own directory. This is the default way in nix and it is well known, that this breaks all symlinks. The solution is considered to "defeat the sense of nix" and will accordingly to people in your irc channel, not be part of the npm build script. This means, every single new developer, who tries nix as package manager on his distribution, will experience that all breaks, once npm installs a package.

[dtzWill]

This seems to be entirely an issue for Nixpkgs. While this may be difficult to fix (and perhaps unlikely to be fixed as a result) the right thing is to report it over there so at least it can be tracked/discussed.

If you think this is indeed a problem with nix itself, please clarify or open a new issue :).

Hope this helps, sorry you're having troubles!