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Re: A GNU Distribution

From: Kete
Subject: Re: A GNU Distribution
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:30:10 -0400
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On 04/07/2012 06:20 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

        With Nix, how does the shell search for an executable?

     It searches PATH for the right executable.

What dirs does it find them in?  Is it true that /bin does
not exist as we are used to?  If it's true, how is it different
and why?
It looks in /nix/bin. /bin has one simlink file. One reason why they don't use /usr/bin is to greatly reduce incomplete dependencies.
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