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…worse but I might be missing something. After I ejected out of playing with it on Mac OS, I found: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/458#issuecomment-1019743... Over 13 parts to remove NixOS from Mac OS, involving reboots, /etc/fstab, OS…

comment by MuffinFlavored · 2022-12-29 · in PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database

I haven't used it, but afaict the --ignore-environment flag is intended for roughly the same usecase. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4359#issuecomment-907768... notes some differences.

comment by abathur · 2022-12-25 · in Nix and NixOS, my pain points

…are a couple of things blocking it from becoming the default. I think the main thing is this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 - Eelco Dolstra gave a talk on this recently as well if you wanna know more:…

comment by dd_ · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”

…doesn't sandbox builds on macOS at all by default, and turning sandboxing on breaks some builds: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/1821 But the libc issue goes deeper. This blog post has some explanation:…

comment by pxc · 2022-09-21 · in Hacking anything with GNU Guix

…... [7] - https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html [8] - https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc [9] - https://github.com/NixOS/nix [10] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by shiryel · 2022-09-02 · in We want to make Nix better

This thing, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3121 Or the issues surrounding submodules.

comment by otabdeveloper4 · 2022-08-07 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…true that it's trivial to turn a Git repo into a flake, because flakes don't do submodules, and https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5497 has languished :(

comment by Smaug123 · 2022-08-07 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…it from the Arch repo and using Nix's installer (+ the adjustments described here [1]). [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/879#issuecomment-4109043...

comment by Cosi1125 · 2022-08-07 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…to remove packages by name (using the index number will work). The source is pretty readable: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/src/nix

comment by grumbel · 2022-08-06 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

…to pass a special flag to enable it, which is undocumented and have to dig through github issues: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4423

comment by pca006132 · 2022-08-05 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

…of parameters that as of now can not really be mapped to a functionality in nix flakes. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2861

comment by eulenteufel · 2022-08-05 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

…support for nix flakes and so on, without hyphens: nix build, nix shell, nix run, etc. repo: https://github.com/nixos/nix docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/ * nixpkgs & nixos is a huge mono-repo containing instructions how to fetch…

comment by phaer · 2022-08-05 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

…/etc/zshrc. So, people who use zsh by choice or default get dumped on a bit :/ Some background in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3616

comment by abathur · 2022-07-31 · in Using Nix on macOS

…talk on the nix macos effort you can “enjoy” the sight of some c++ directly generating scheme here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/2.9.2/src/libstore/build/l...

comment by 0x69420 · 2022-07-04 · in macOS: App sandboxing via sandbox-exec (2020)

…the Nix store and see if they exist there, is because Nix does not yet support recursive calls: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13 (nearly ten years old). However, the RFC for adding support was finally merged:…

comment by solatic · 2022-04-25 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

…of macOS and the root dir being read-only > Took me a month to finally remove Nix from my macOS https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6206#issuecomment-105938...

comment by password4321 · 2022-04-21 · in Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

…later ~secure whatever new location was chosen). For some general references on the above, see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-499517... https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-523340...…

comment by abathur · 2022-04-19 · in Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix

…EDIT: to get the sha, unfortunately you have to perform some esoteric command line incantations: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1880#issuecomment-366615... and https://gist.github.com/boxofrox/d8a3080fbb03f84b7d7a31e102b...

comment by JamesSwift · 2022-04-19 · in Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix

…callPackage convention. > - An issue open since 2018 that the manuals simple example doesn't build: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 People chiming in years later that they only could build the example after reading the suggestions…

comment by takeda · 2022-03-18 · in How to Learn Nix

…way for this common case? - An issue open since 2018 that the manuals simple example doesn't build: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 People chiming in years later that they only could build the example after reading the suggestions…

comment by BoardsOfCanada · 2022-03-15 · in How to Learn Nix

…Looks like there is an issue for duplicate profile entries already; just hasn’t gotten attention. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5587 I’ll take a look. The verbosity of “legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ripgrep” in the search results may…

comment by tomberek · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

profile removal: Fixed in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6086 search speed: $ time nix search nixpkgs ripgrep * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ripgrep (13.0.0) A utility that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed…

comment by tomberek · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

…why this is not getting advertised more widely, as it's been worked on for a few years already: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779 For example, opening a temporary shell with, say, GIMP, is as simple as: nix run nixpkgs.gimp If you…

comment by nextos · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

…works its awesome. When it doesnt work though prepare to get your hands dirty fixing some packages. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6113 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/160554 The ability to compile everything simply just from…

comment by Cloudef · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

…of cake. Just run nix-env -i without argument. Nix has been behaving that way for at least 8 years: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/308

comment by Diti · 2022-02-01 · in Installing Every Arch Package

…is under-documented. (In part due to a small community, etc.). A couple of examples I've run into: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 showed people trying to make use of the "hello world" package which was given in the NixPkgs…

comment by rgoulter · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS

…plan not to repeat its mistakes, or the new one risks being just as slow as the old one. [1] : https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2652 [2] : https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1123/

comment by kripke · 2021-12-02 · in Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix

…I know what you mean. Relative to Docker, it's way less popular. But it has 5.2k stars on https://github.com/NixOS/nix . But yeah. The DX "needs work". which is a nice way of saying, I find it downright painful to use.

comment by kortex · 2021-11-30 · in Will Nix Overtake Docker?

…really. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if OpenBSD works too, I might spin up a VM and see... [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3280 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459 [2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

comment by bpye · 2021-10-14 · in OpenBSD 7.0

…://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#chap-overlays [3] https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix [4] https://github.com/nixos/nix [5] https://hydra.nixos.org/build/153568733/download/1/manual/co...

comment by takeda · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

…and now it's September with still no release. OTOH, the list of milestone issues is pretty short: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+m... I expect the delay is mostly due to all this debate raging about `nix shell`…

comment by mikepurvis · 2021-09-15 · in Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux

…himself, but unfortunately he closed it again as unrealistic a number of years later [0]. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14#issuecomment-37820190...

comment by maxdamantus · 2021-09-15 · in Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux

…hardest part has just been keeping up with nix when we need to rewrite the build system. However, https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3160 to switch to Meson, has gotten new life breathed into it. Pamplemousse, who is interning where…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-07-16 · in Valve Steam Deck

…an older mac and have troubles with installing nix, try out the new installer in this GH issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4289 (the command is in the "Try it out" section). It's already merged, but not released yet. So far this has…

comment by _query · 2021-07-13 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

The show's happening here now: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125184 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4867 There's also not-directly-related cross-functional need here on the install…

comment by lloeki · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

…sets, like `{ foo = "bar"; }`), rather than an implicit environment/context. My rationale is at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1361#issuecomment-390420... The thing about shadowing is that `with` will not shadow anything that's in the…

comment by chriswarbo · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

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story by groodt · 2021-02-16 · 0 comments

…free remote access to DTKs for open source developers, in cooperation with MacStadium. Cite: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3853#issuecomment-678249...

comment by callahad · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1

…technology that has plenty of documentation and examples. > You see, Please. Stop. Repeating. Lies. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8 Please don't go ad hominem and don't accuse me of lying. This issue is submitted by Nix devs…

comment by k32 · 2020-11-10 · in One Week of NixOS

…specific packages before they broke) I'd rather prefer a working and reproducible system. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53834 [2]: https://github.com/hauleth/nix-elixir [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8 [4]:…

comment by aszlig · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…way. (Or "impure", such that building with the same inputs might result in different outputs). https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2270

comment by rgoulter · 2020-10-16 · in NixCon Live

…non-determinstic builds far more noticiable. See these: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4087

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-09-29 · in Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

…as tags are mutable, and thus hashes are needed to validate them. See e.g. the discussion over at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3216 .

comment by FRidh · 2020-08-17 · in Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language

The issue is just fixed! https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3212

comment by autojoechen · 2020-05-23 · in What Is Nix?

…of a Dockerfile. [1] Catalina issues notwithstanding, though there is a 4 command solution now: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925

comment by silviogutierrez · 2020-05-22 · in Programming Inside a Container

…to be able use Nix, and I'm upset with the Catalina situation. Can follow some discussion here https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925

comment by pmahoney · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

It's funny, I just had to do this a few days ago. This comment has worked for me on two machines: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-539570...

comment by mjhoy · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

…package for Emacs. The Homebrew core/cask versions only provides a limited feature set[2][3]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925 [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510 [3]:…

comment by soraminazuki · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

…firmlink to e.g. /usr/local/nix , since realpath does not report the actual path on firmlinks. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2926#issuecomment-559989...

comment by danieldk · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?

Buried in that issue is a workaround, although GitHub's UI hides it from you: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-604501...

comment by endgame · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?