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by SomeoneEsle123 1313 days ago
It manages the prebuilt binaries...but requires being run as root or adding myself to the list of Nix trustedUsers...on an OS level.

Both of those things are scary and dangerous. I don't know what your software or Cachix is doing.

Can you tell me exactly what it will be doing to my system? What changes? Does it use a lot of disk space? Is it easy to undo? And is there anyone who recommends doing it who isn't associated to IHP?