<LnL>
yeah and more importantly they are planning to provide a way to create a global symlinks or mountpoints
<LnL>
looks like they think there are (enough) valid usecases for global paths
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<matthewbauer>
that's good to hear!
<matthewbauer>
fink uses /sw as well, but it looks like the catalina beta sets up that automatically
<matthewbauer>
! which is kind of funny because I suspect there are many many more nix on macos users than fink users
<matthewbauer>
but I guess apple didn't want to put a /nix directory on everyone's computer
<matthewbauer>
too bad though
<gchristensen>
wat?
<gchristensen>
well we should open a ticket and say "well you did it for Fink!"
<matthewbauer>
it sounds like at least damien is aware of the problem
<gchristensen>
damien?
<matthewbauer>
apple engineer in the tweet
<matthewbauer>
the good news is that we have enough users that I don't think Apple can completely ignore us. even two or three years ago that might not have been the case!
<gchristensen>
oh cool
<LnL>
ship /nix in the base image and we won't complain :D
<gchristensen>
+1
<gchristensen>
(plus like 32 nixbld users plz)
<LnL>
hehe
<LnL>
matthewbauer: no other issues like missing dylibs/symbols for now?
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<matthewbauer>
nope
<matthewbauer>
i'll try to do a stdenv rebuild to be sure though
<gchristensen>
along these lines, the macos builders are a bit out of date. is there any concern around updating to the latest release of whatever is stable now?
<LnL>
in theory there could be impurities that get detected which are not backwards compatible
<LnL>
I wouldn't expect any problems, but what's the motivation for upgrading?
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<matthewbauer>
maybe to avoid being forced to upgrade to 10.15+?
<gchristensen>
LnL: I figured I'd do some standard software updates , and if I was going to do that might as well go "all the way" but I don't have to
<matthewbauer>
if apple is so concerned about security, you would think they would take a look at brew making /usr/local/bin world writable!
<matthewbauer>
the fact that most macOS with brew are set up so any user can just do ```echo "malicious-thing" > /usr/local/bin/ls``` is soo crazy! and root will end up executing it if they ever run ls
<matthewbauer>
why is this not a higher priority than making / read-only!