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Also, unlike git-bug, this tool doesn't choke on the github.com/nixos/nixpkgs repository.

comment by octoberfranklin · 2022-08-03 · in PRR – a terminal tool for managing Pull Requests on GitHub

…daemons configured besides CDE itself. But as you mentioned, setting cde.enable is way easier. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/634141959076a8ab69ca2c...

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-07-26 · in Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)

…rigor. I hope you will join us at some point. I am confident that you will find it enriching. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/175875

comment by flurie · 2022-07-21 · in About using Nix in my development workflow

…all the runtime dependencies. So my recommendation would be to actually use Nix, not avoid it. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/builders/im...

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-07-21 · in About using Nix in my development workflow

…subsequent imports will no longer make outbound HTTP requests. Also this PR to nixpkgs from 2020: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/79900 > Many users have requested Dhall support for "offline" packages ... The goal of this change is…

comment by infogulch · 2022-07-04 · in StrictYAML

…can see this effect in nixpkgs for example. See how few entries have a rebuild count larger than 10 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

comment by viraptor · 2022-06-27 · in We Halved Go Monorepo CI Build Time

…builds. But I assume this would require Bazel's binary cache implementation to be pluggable. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/21321a6381fd8d3660fe1c...

comment by mikepurvis · 2022-06-24 · in Incremental Builds for Haskell with Bazel

…You are eligible to use GitHub Copilot for free." that was unexpected but in retrospect https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ is pretty popular. (Currently 9.8k stars)

comment by kevincox · 2022-06-21 · in GitHub Copilot is generally available

They don't want you forking it for that purpose, either. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 Is it technically open source? Yes. Is it spiritually open source? No. Is it arrogance and poor management? Along with many ways this…

comment by snapetom · 2022-05-29 · in Home Assistant OS Release 8

I quite like Home Assistant, I really don't like their developers. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/local-dns/178108

comment by deadbunny · 2022-05-29 · in Home Assistant OS Release 8

…large Nix expression spanning thousands of files and somehow manages to be comprehensible. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-05-27 · in GNU Guix System

NixOS uses systemd, although wrapped in their own DSL, example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/24903b5de2e07cc7b65eae...

comment by jbboehr · 2022-05-27 · in GNU Guix System

…see how to get lots of Arm chipsets to bootstrap with Linux. Specifically, the uboot config file. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/uboot... By reading that, you can get a good view into what proprietary blobs and…

comment by tmountain · 2022-05-17 · in My Unholy Battle with a Rock64

…per target system. Depending on the target system it will use qemu, wine, wasmtime or mmixware. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/111839dcf6e9a8bac6972e...

comment by zimbatm · 2022-04-24 · in Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (2018)

…security issue. PRs that mention CVE do that, but otherwise I couldn't find anything so for example https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161198 which includes a security fix is still waiting. If they can't pull off the reviews with 577…

comment by viraptor · 2022-04-24 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

…communicate them as good as possible. Nixpkg does quite a good job in tracking those issues, imho. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss... is a list of security issues. Most of them generated by automated scans of…

comment by phaer · 2022-04-24 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

…https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-625855... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903#issuecomment-7...

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

…one place (which we see with Nix), but the happy path should be 100% transparent to the user. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls

comment by zamalek · 2022-04-13 · in A Dotfile History

…target, universal build command) are pretty easy to do in Nix (see readTree[5], magrathea[6]). [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1]: https://code.tvl.fyi/about/nix/buildGo [2]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/ops/besadii/default.nix…

comment by tazjin · 2022-04-08 · in Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos

…http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz) {}, pinned ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/ca2ba44cab47767c8127d1c8633e2b581644eb8f.tar.gz) {}, git ? import (fetchGit { url =…

comment by lloeki · 2022-04-05 · in Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

…community so you could always ask if you're stuck. [1]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/ [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-04-05 · in Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

…more than 80,000. Edit: it seems to be the largest software repo according to this (2020) [1]. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-has-been-the-largest-r...

comment by Asdrubalini · 2022-03-31 · in The Delusions of Debian

There is an example of doing this in the docker-tools examples! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by flurie · 2022-03-16 · in How to make Docker images even smaller

…me many examples when trying to figure out how to write packages for a particular language. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

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

…with random versions of packages. I also knew that the SHA for chromium had to match what was here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/a1c5e5bc40749652503c... . So if chromium wasn't the issue, the problem would have to lie elsewhere.…

comment by smasher164 · 2022-03-05 · in Reproducible Builds in February 2022

…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 one file is amazingly powerful though, and makes…

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

…ideas taken as a whole (instead of iteratively) could be combined into something far greater. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master [2]: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/blob/master/standar...

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

…publicly NixOS but they indicated they planned to insist the same against Fedora and Gentoo too: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 That behaviour kind of makes it hard to trust that it won't lead to the next Marak situation.

comment by Macha · 2022-02-02 · in Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi

…this [1], this [2], and that, but it did not work. Tried Homebrew and it worked like a charm. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 [2] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2266

comment by zekrioca · 2022-02-02 · in Containers are not just for Kubernetes

…manager calculates the hash for the unpacked contents of GitHub archives for this precise reason. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32997

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: GitHub Download Hash Change?

…reddit.com/r/linux/comments/shxq12/comment/hv5by... [1]: https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs-review [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/144730#pullrequestrevi... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization [4]:…

comment by jonringer117 · 2022-02-01 · in Installing Every Arch Package

…gotten round to the 2021 update, but that should get rid of the annoying 32-bit dependencies. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1e643a385290e54947594a...

comment by kwohlfahrt · 2022-01-25 · in The Curse of NixOS

…top of the build dependency tree. Some more relevant links about replacing glibc specifically: * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/50329 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/129595 If you want to replace things system-wide…

comment by nh2 · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS

…with the new ones [2]. [1] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&show=system.r... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fad04722fc3d692e3511e5...

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

…with an example [1]. The only missing part is a rendered HTML with the same information. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

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

Nice to see this has an advertised Nix build! I hope to return to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366 at some point, so all arches can be built similarly!

comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-01-19 · in OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog

…systems or using weird docker file hacks by hand. Here's some idea of what the syntax looks like: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by f0e4c2f7 · 2022-01-18 · in Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker

…interesting set of yak shaves. I've been following the progress of the most active NixOS developer: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101651

comment by smorgusofborg · 2022-01-15 · in The RISC-V Experience

There is an issue on Nixpkgs to package this absolute (but beautiful) monster of a package.[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/131492

comment by siraben · 2022-01-11 · in Quines (Self-Replicating Programs)

…"trying" to get Anbox working on NixOS (It's currently broken on 5.x kernels but should be fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/102341 ) so that's why I know that Anbox is the "same" as this.

comment by carlhjerpe · 2022-01-04 · in Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator

…(e.g. It's been fixed, and the workaround wasn't difficult before that, but I'd run into this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56348 ). - Nix is weird; so, sometimes when it's not doing what you want, it can be difficult to figure…

comment by rgoulter · 2021-12-26 · in Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

…done automatically), and you get reproducibility for free (at least in the build environment.) [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/151871/files

comment by siraben · 2021-12-26 · in Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

…some of the tradeoffs Nixpkgs developers have faced when it comes to handling Qt and KDE packaging: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/86369 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54525 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/44047 I…

comment by pxc · 2021-12-19 · in Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

…Hopper Disassembler [2][3] does. That's probably the reason why GNUStep is absent in Homebrew. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1cfd83e859002d1f053bb3... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/a0dbe47318bbab7559ffbf... [3]:…

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-12-13 · in GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment

I made https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/149523 to kick off nix-build -A pkgsStatic.llvmPackages.clang-unwrapped Which built all the other deps just fine, but failed buildling LLVM with CONFIGURE_LLVM_NATIVE. That seems easy enough to…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-12-08 · in A proposal to start “llvm-libc” (2020)

…are due to uutils not implementing GNU extensions, some of which can get pretty involved. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-85... [2]…

comment by siraben · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…'{ foo = "bar"; }' and a specialised version for known use-cases like nixpkgs.lib.nameValuePair ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e9e53499b26ad98ac97f97... ) (mentioned in a sibling) Linters could then spot when such functions are…

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

…fit your needs", compiling from source is not a big deal since Docker caches output artifacts. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327

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

NixOS has it packaged, reproducibly I presume? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8a308775674e178495767d...

comment by anotherhue · 2021-11-30 · in Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

…, and NixOS, but the services part still needs more PR reviews: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/133984 (full disclosure, I'm the author of this PR)

comment by julm · 2021-11-26 · in Code.gouv.fr: Why Etalab's Free Software Pole Uses Sourcehut