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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. 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
  4. …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
  5. 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
  6. There you go: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/115062
    comment by manveru · 2021-03-04 · in Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal
  7. 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
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. …(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
  11. …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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. …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
  22. …[2]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#idm140737322634320 [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [4]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-11-24 · in GNU Guix 1.2.0
  23. You can also do this in nix. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...
    comment by georgyo · 2020-11-24 · in GNU Guix 1.2.0
  24. For Nix users, here it is packaged[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/104276/files
    comment by siraben · 2020-11-19 · in Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc
  25. …since needed to use Homebrew except for casks. [0] "Support for Apple Silicon (aarch64-darwin)" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903
    comment by siraben · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon
  26. Ah, OK, you mean stuff like this, right? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85103 I haven't often run into wrapper issues, but when you do it's a pain. So thanks for the pointer, I should probably look at how guix does it.
    comment by patrec · 2020-11-13 · in One Week of NixOS
  27. …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
  28. …really? Yes, really. This PR partially reverted this behavior (or rather made it less intrusive): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54115/files , but from there you can easily track "rebar3 hermecity patch", which had introduced it.
    comment by k32 · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  29. …[3] https://matthewbauer.us/blog/beginners-guide-to-cross.html [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ [5] https://github.com/r-ryantm
    comment by siraben · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  30. …lifespan, that it never will, when the last 5 years of NixOS have been the most active by large: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/code-frequency
    comment by Shoue · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  31. …enough to work around but I wonder how big the list would've gotten if I hadn't stopped there. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415
    comment by dsissitka · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  32. There is something called nixpart: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpart but it's very immature as per as https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21403 All help is welcomed :).
    comment by RaitoBezarius · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  33. …inkscape $< --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=$@ # put into default.nix with import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/7ad5e816faba3f808e2a8815b14d0f023a4e2160.tar.gz") {}; stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "zine-images";…
    comment by patrec · 2020-10-28 · in Ninja: A simple way to do builds
  34. …rendering. the skew is not there while editing 2. kdenlive[2] works fine with no audio skew [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6b74f99abd2f4c62e8093c... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f6cd17269ea00766319388...
    comment by GrantZvolsky · 2020-10-20 · in My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
  35. …optional. As an example, check out ripgrep [1]. It uses `fetchFromGithub` to retrieve the code. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3bb54189b0c8132752fff3...
    comment by the_duke · 2020-10-16 · in NixCon Live
  36. …package manager of choice (OSX/Linux). Additionally, you automatically get shell completion too! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3bb54189b0c8132752fff3... As described in the README, avoiding the 'build' part from Makefiles cut…
    comment by thenonameguy · 2020-09-22 · in No script is too simple
  37. https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ Everything, I care about, fully reproducible. I don't mean to "hawk my wares" in what feels like many threads, but seriously, this is a solved problem, despite the continued mess-making of people that…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-08-21 · in The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
  38. Here is the NixOS patch for xdg-utils: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95758
    comment by Mic92 · 2020-08-18 · in Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk
  39. …create wrappers, but those have thus far been shell scripts causing trouble at times on e.g. OSX. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95569 I found it easy to get up to speed and do something useful with it. The language is also in my…
    comment by FRidh · 2020-08-16 · in Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language
  40. …dependencies, which can be done by the following: let pkgs = import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/48dfc9fa97d762bce28cc8372a2dd3805d14c633.tar.gz"; sha256 = "0mqq9hchd8mi1qpd23lwnwa88s67ac257k60hsv…
    comment by euank · 2020-08-13 · in Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts
  41. I really need to get back to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131 so we can build on Linux or BSD, for Linux or BSD, in all 4 combinations. Eventually I want equivalent, NixOS userland, choose kernel on boot. Nevermind the merits of…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-07-13 · in Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
  42. …Rust-based packages in nixpkgs use buildRustPackage , which does not follow this approach [1]. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89563
    comment by danieldk · 2020-06-27 · in Dynamic linking
  43. Example repository of a project that's invested in using GitHub: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Discussion on /r/github: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/hei81f/ Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile - finally the…
    comment by qqii · 2020-06-23 · in Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
  44. …is much longer [2] but I think that's because it's actually building the software from source. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... 2: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...…
    comment by cbaines · 2020-06-15 · in Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
  45. …popular than Arch anytime soon either. [0]: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/ [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85542 [2]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall... [3]:…
    comment by qqii · 2020-06-15 · in Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
  46. …gemath.org/html/en/installation/conda.html#sec... [2] https://hub.docker.com/r/sagemath/sagemath/ [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
    comment by infokiller · 2020-06-14 · in SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
  47. …to generate ec2 image, basd on your configuration.nix[1] You can also generate other images[2] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintaine... [2] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators edit: I believe you…
    comment by takeda · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
  48. …frameworks. This combined allows you to create packages with minimal effort most of the time. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
  49. …in /etc and running other stuff as root? In contrast, this was my first contribution to Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/0b8efd8724e59964bad0... Easily as reproducible as anything Debian, and apart from installing Nix it…
    comment by Athas · 2020-06-02 · in Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
  50. …it just uses a plain string (interpolated with variables via Nix) into the writeText wrapper. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e... [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e...
    comment by jbboehr · 2020-05-22 · in What Is Nix?