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That would require assumption of good faith from all participants. This resignation post reinforces the view that there is little good faith assumptions amongst the broader Nix eco…

There was an architecture team which existed, I would assume the usage of "core" was to disambiguate. https://github.com/nixpkgs-architecture

Nix ran for many years with very little to no structure. This worked fine as long as the community has some cohesion around it being a FOSS project. But political divisiveness happ…

If you're unemployed enough, I have a long winded video on the 2022-2024 drama. From the perspective of the guy who was labeled a nazi and banned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g…

Hi Hexa, Since you were a moderator at the time of my ban, would care to expand as to why I was banned, and what you meant by "purge the Nazis?"

(Thanks for all your work on rust) There is some work to get nix to work with Windows, this is mostly being done by john ericson. However, the real issue is that nixpkgs (the repos…

There's nothing wrong with the fundamentals of Nix. But working with nixpkgs is quite difficult for most. Which is why I'm attempting to address those issues in a fork, Ekapkgs. Th…

That there's an established clique? I agree.

Well, the activity around changing the status quo was done in a github issue [1]. Which sat around for many months after proposing the Apache Software Foundation's sponsorship poli…

For those that are curious about an alternative perspective on this matter, I detailed much of my personal views in my reddit suspension post. I don't have much context on the EU N…

There's a lot of issues right now around communication, moderation, and community. - One of the release managers (myself) was banned/suspended [1] - Attempts to assert control on t…

Correct, there was an open letter [1]. And to clarify above, there was no "contributors of this company" dynamic to the outrage. "jobs" are things which come and go, not a lot of p…

Nice, really interesting usage of nixpkgs :). Almost a command line friendly version of docker build. I like it.

Compost takes 20 days to 20 months depending on the feed stock. The main issue with compost is that it can be effective in high-intensity operations like market gardens, but it's m…

For external users, probably the most exciting "feature" is the use of a calamares installer for the gnome and plasma isos.

This likely wouldn't work on practice. Nix is aggressively lazy, so if you just want a single package, you don't have to evaluate the builds of all 60k+ packages, just the package …

Builds break over time[0]. Generally this is from big updates like gcc, glibc, llvm, openssl, etc. Most software which is maintained upstream and within nixpkgs is fine. But there'…

Oh, nix-env.... The tool which attempted to bridge the worlds of nix and traditional package managers. But has all of the quirks of both.

Copying my comment from reddit[0]: For clarity, Arch has about 10k packages, AUR has around 60k packages. I believe this post is "just" about the 10k. > I’d like to see someone do …

Impressive trolling. > deepSeq is basically useless because of how almost every datastructure is ciruclar Circular references will cause "infinite recursion", and these will cause …

terraform is more about reconciliation of a configuration, and moving a state closer to a desired end state. NixOS is congruent configuration management. There's a 1 to 1 correlati…

> And about Home Manager, the reason why I think it's over-hyped is because it provides a declarative approach to something that was... already declarative. Your $XDG_CONFIG direct…

I generally use `nix repl` for this. I have an example of myself looking at what my configuration.nix renders to while debugging a module I was adding to nixpkgs/NixOS. https://you…

`nix.gc.automatic` is implemented as a systemd timer to run `nix-collect-garbage` periodically. `nix.optimise` is just a nix conf option. Meaning anytime nix creates a store path, …

> Python has pyenv, NodeJS has nvm, Terraform has tfenv, and the list goes on. Nix makes these all largely irrelevant, in a consistent way. If anything I would say this supports ni…