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Arkh4m

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    Comment #28604461

    There is no need to literally fork the nixpkgs repo. Most language derivations were written with the idea of supporting multiple versions at the same time. In this guide ( https://…

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    Comment #28604292

    That's the point: without using Nix, you'd have to do LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacking to have two programs use two different versions of glibc. When people say "oh nix looks so complicated…

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    Comment #28596373

    Then you'd have to learn to read Nix expressions. The original expression that builds all ruby versions is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6120ac5cd201f6cb593d1b... Her…

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    Comment #28595900

    Here is an example of doing what you want https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I found the nixpkgs versions using this tool: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-ve…

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    Comment #28595847

    Here is an example if you absolutely want to pin Ruby to 2.6.7 while pulling all other packages from a more recent set of packages https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723…

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    Comment #28595842

    Here's an example https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I used this tool to find the specific nixpkgs version https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=…

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    Comment #28595225

    Here is an example if you absolutely want to pin Ruby to 2.6.7 while pulling all other packages from a more recent set of packages https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723…

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    Comment #28591414

    First, dependency manager vs package manager. Potayto potatoh. Second. The reason I recommend direnv is because of ergonomics, so you don't have to remember to reload your shell. M…

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    Comment #6107819

    It looks great, very very polished. Congrats!

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    Comment #4131947

    I've tried this and it looks interesting; probably there are too many tools to install to get it working though, i.e. todo.txt looks a bit like garbage to me.

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    Comment #3324767

    This looks really like what I needed, it looks awesome!