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[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Joke's on you, I don't understand Nix and I'm a NixOS package maintainer

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing you're responsible for the documentation, as well.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

Gottem lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Kind of, but since I don't know what I'm doing I mostly just delete some of it when it's not working

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is it possible to learn this power?

[–] onlinepersona 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Randomly switch between buildInputs, nativeBuildInputs, depsBuildBuild, depsBuildTarget, depsHostHost, and depsTargetTarget until it builds.

Good luck building anything electron. Copy-paste some existing build recipe and replace the source. If it doesn't work, make a post on the forums saying it doesn't work and let somebody else figure it out, then create a PR 🫰 ezpz

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't randomly switch between anything, I go straight to copy pasting existing packages

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

teach us the way

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) 
while code_is_working != true {
    response = post(matrix_channel, [code, error_code]);
    [code_is_working, error_code] = run(response);
}
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

The secret is attitude, "fuck it we ball" attitude and method of "fuck around and find out" works just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol…

I mean, fair enough; also, your use case is entirely unlike that of someone who just uses NixOS normally, I would imagine. It's really not like using NixOS requires a deep understanding of the language itself, or at least that's never been my experience with it, and I've been daily driving it for well over a year at this point. As long as I know enough to keep maintaining the same /etc/nixos/configuration.nix I have now indefinitely, that's as deep of an "understanding" of the language as I will ever need, personally. I'm well aware that there are a lot of things I could be doing if I knew how to, and frankly, I'll probably never learn how to do those things because I'll probably never have to. NixOS is by far the single easiest distro I've ever used, if only because everything's always reproducible and because nothing ever breaks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

No, it's just I need niche proxy software so I maintain one package. The other package is bugged (wrong paths on nix), so I maintain a fork and a NUR package

It's not by choice!