Daiderd Jordan

Yeah that's what I was suggesting.

Relying on applescript seems pretty undesirable to me, especially for headless usecases. But should be pretty easy to create an alias using [CoreFoundation](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corefoundation/1542923-cfurlcreatebookmarkdata) if there's no binary that create one...

Yeah, moving the system applications out of the home folder would be good.

I'm not sure there are still that many people from the nix community in general on irc since moving away from freenode. The macOS channel on the official matrix is...

Yeah, I think so.

Packages like emacs are actually already linked to ~/Applications when added to `systemPackages`. I don't know how much work it would be to package things like that with nix. But...

Yeah, there's currently no functionality to setup files/directories for services. Logfiles have a similar problem where launchd will completely refuse to start the service, so you have to either setup...

Hmm, that sounds a bit unexpected but adding the activation snippet to the daemon that runs at boot would be a good solution.

I added some extra validation for nix.conf in 4bffc92, this should be relatively safe if the uninstaller restores the backup files.

I don't think that overlay will do what you want as it mixes x86 and arm libraries. To build a mixed system you most likely want to use the same...