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…that NixOS is one of the most up-to-date distros out there. [1]: https://github.com/r-ryantm [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 [3]: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…policy to drop packages when the relationship to the upstream is beyond repairing [2]. [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by ninjin · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…not particularly owed anything. I really, really, really think it needs to be kept that way. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/bacbc48c

comment by jchw · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…why they don't think that any of the proposed solutions would have addressed their concerns. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by mijoharas · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…also enable tests[2], when possible, on Python packages to ensure they are packaged correctly. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... [2]…

comment by siraben · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…some of my packages because of your question, so will file a similar request with them. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by supurbly · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

Related context: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126319 In response to "not having the latest": Generally we (nixpkgs) lag behind a bit, as managing ~60-100k packages takes some time. But as long as the process to build a package…

comment by jonringer117 · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

If I understand you, they offered that very thing in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... and it first wasn't answered, and then was dismissed with "This was already answered. Please don't repack my source in…

comment by miloignis · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... says why pinning and pulling from pypi wouldn't work

comment by dd82 · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by aynyc · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

The package author has gone on to open issues for their other Python packages too - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/created_by/frenck - currently five open (and locked) issues.

comment by Arnavion · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…March 12: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/03/stable-channel... Version bump in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5f8b95113983c8f31d63... on March 13 (one day later) Released in nixos-unstable on Mar 16 11:11:22…

comment by dnr · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05

…(2) One of your inputs will be github:NixOS/nixpkgs/release-21.05, which means the release-21.05 branch of github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs. The lockfile will ensure this follows the latest version (3) In your flake, include your system…

comment by squiggleblaz · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05

…s://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel... The commits updating them in nixpkgs are: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5b6d3c4b13e50540d044... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4fe69d33aeb6dac647e4... The first…

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

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... I believe this is the package you are talking about. The significant part is basically bash, so it should be readable without nix knowledge as well. And yeah it basically…

comment by kaba0 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

…needs to be updated immediately, you can help out by running this script and opening a PR. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... --- Now, back to point, security issues are not "neglected" in NixOS, and most…

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

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

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/105026 this was recently merged so that should start rapidly improving.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

…vanilla C binary + library that does the `autoreconf && ./configure && make && make install` dance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/secu... It's almost a little misleading because the actual steps are largely…

comment by rraval · 2021-05-31 · in Nix solves the package manager ejection problem

Every programming language on Nix , where Nix specifically means https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs The ambiguity versus "*nix" as shorthand for Linux/Unix is unfortunate, but here we are. :)

comment by callahad · 2021-05-25 · in Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

Neat, if it gets added to nixpkgs it will be available on Replit! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by cbrewster · 2021-05-24 · in Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

…appreciate that. We’re working on a Nix recipe to make it easier on MacOS, making some progress https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233

comment by jmercouris · 2021-05-20 · in Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

…probably a better way to do this that doesn't trigger a merge conflict Well if you want to try Nix, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9dba669e8a53f00114b53d... right out of the box :D

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-05-17 · in Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... well, we've been taking some baby steps towards being kernel-agnostic. That's one way to tackle this.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-05-02 · in FVWM and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop

…does not look as positive as described by this comment: - if you have an M1 mac, it does not work ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 ) - if you have an intel mac, when you install it, you have to add the…

comment by ztcfegzgf · 2021-04-26 · in Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository

…there has been interest in something like this for many years, but it's never quite come together: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26067 I wouldn't assume it's just around the corner or inevitable. It is a really exciting…

comment by pxc · 2021-04-21 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

…on a M1 Mac (see [1] and references therein) I prefer the experience to brew for the moment. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/116341

comment by lorenzfx · 2021-04-20 · in The Changelog – Into the Nix Ecosystem

…the magic of Nix. For example, the topic of versions has been argued about for over five years : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682

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

…project has its own default.nix that might look something like this: { pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/cd63096.tar.gz") { } } : with pkgs; let mypackage = callPackage ./mypackage.nix { stdenv = stdenv;…

comment by otabdeveloper4 · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

…will have an hash which you inline [1] so that the resultant hash is correctly computed. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/842f900e73c7ce985218cc...

comment by ywei3410 · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

…package management because this was a known, long-standing issue that is not likely to be fixed. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118481 The experience came across as a massive red flag and I decided not to pursue it further.

comment by jpe90 · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

We've grown a lot in last few years and haven't caught up with the policies. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118661 for details. Note that those statistics are incorrect, but pushes to master still do happen.

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

…was figuring out partitioning (since I rarely do that), but YMMV. Hope you try it sometime! [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/77297a7519b3d968f32abd...

comment by siraben · 2021-03-16 · in Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps

Now there's a PR up for Rust-based stdenv![0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274

comment by siraben · 2021-03-14 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

There you go: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/115062

comment by manveru · 2021-03-04 · in Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal

Thanks for the datapoint. I've been following https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/102547 and considering trying it out for a while. Did you just set services.pipewire.pulse.enable=true? https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&…

comment by kevincox · 2021-03-03 · in PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

…then the enterprise distros can offer. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/trust-model-for-nixpkgs/9450 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20836

comment by Foxboron · 2021-02-10 · in Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

a derivation for the unfree version is even available in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Just add (aseprite.override { unfree = true; }) to your configuration.nix or shell.nix or whatever. If you…

comment by whateveracct · 2021-02-09 · in LibreSprite is an open source program for creating and animating your sprites

…(thank you!) but I still need to wait few more days for it to be included in -unstable. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/108603

comment by sirn · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…unstable channel since the release of 20.09. Perhaps the Zero Hydra Failures effort[1] helped. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/97479

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…ago and it still does[2]. [1]: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=20.09&show=users.ex... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/a3a531071598cad0c60485...

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-02-03 · in GoboLinux

…function}>`. Are there static type systems that make it easy to work with types like that? [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9b935b02e3775d95490f65...

comment by pansa2 · 2021-02-01 · in Dynamic type errors lack relevance

…packages. I have stopped installing stuff from apt and thankfully my system never breaks now. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by aszen · 2021-02-01 · in Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution

…is no problem. Linux headers and header updates are also decoupled from kernel packages in NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... If they weren't, picking another kernel version or updating a kernel would…

comment by danieldk · 2021-01-24 · in Never Ever Use NixOS

…PRs) has the stale bot configured to mark the issue or PR as stale[0] after 180 days. [0] Example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/36217#issuecomment-6...

comment by siraben · 2021-01-18 · in GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

…a bot, otherwise the user will be left helpless. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/51 [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/92254

comment by pingiun · 2021-01-18 · in GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

…to false thus each Go application is self-contained. How would patching dependencies work here? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/search?q=deleteVendor

comment by Foxboron · 2021-01-13 · in Debian discusses vendoring again

…manages patches for NPM packages[2]. The amount of manual fixes required is surprisingly few. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-01-13 · in Debian discusses vendoring again

…out of the box compared to Ubuntu. Make sure you're using Proton 5.0 until this [0] is fixed. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100655

comment by jbboehr · 2021-01-10 · in NixOS Linux

…on my machine" problem. I've been using it exckusively for dev machines and servers for years. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by smilliken · 2020-12-02 · in Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system