Comparing Nix and Conda

[ryantm]

@danieldk

The holy grail is allowing arbitrary install paths

Apparently this is possible now? No clue how badly it will mess up nixpkgs.

@thufschmitt

@edolstra removed the last bits preventing a statically-linked Nix to work, meaning that it’s now possible to fetch a statically-linked Nix and run ./nix --store ~/my-nix without having to install anything.