I remember looking into NixOS years ago and it was very interesting--also
looked into "GNU Stow" and it may help you
with PATH problems: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow

GNU Stow comes with NixOS:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/tools/misc/stow

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexey Shmalko <rasen.dubi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I use NixOS and ditaa is globally installed. That means I have ditaa
> > executable in PATH but no easy way to find a ditaa.jar file. There is
> > no way to instruct org-ditaa to use the specified executable (it
> > requires java and path to the ditaa jar file). Note also that I don't
> > have java in PATH.
> >
> > I would like org-ditaa to use ditaa executable from the PATH. Same
> > goes for org-plantuml.
> >
>
> Does setting org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd to "ditaa" help? Maybe in
> combination with setting org-ditaa-jar-path to nil or ""?
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>