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not run in private network namespace to ensure they can access the
network).

Currently, sandboxing only work on Linux and macOS. The use of a
sandbox requires that Nix is run as root (so you should use the
“build users” feature to perform the actual builds under different
users than root).
Currently, sandboxing only work on Linux and macOS. The use
of a sandbox requires that your system supports "user
namespaces" or else that Nix is run as root (so you should
use the “build users” feature to perform the actual builds
under different users than root).

If this option is set to `relaxed`, then fixed-output derivations
and derivations that have the `__noChroot` attribute set to `true`
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