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I've been using WAF for ages so naturally I wonder how this system compares to WAF? My experience with build systems is that they all get the easy parts rights. You can compile C and C++ code and they successfully scan header files for dependencies. But FEW get the hard parts rights. E.g., compiling LaTeX with multiple figures, custom fonts and classes, and multiple bib files. It requires correctly interfacing with p…
I've been using WAF for ages so naturally I wonder how this system compares to WAF? My experience with build systems is that they all get the easy parts rights. You can compile C and C++ code and they successfully scan header files for dependencies. But FEW get the hard parts rights. E.g., compiling LaTeX with multiple figures, custom fonts and classes, and multiple bib files. It requires correctly interfacing with p…
I've been using WAF for ages so naturally I wonder how this system compares to WAF? My experience with build systems is that they all get the easy parts rights. You can compile C and C++ code and they successfully scan header files for dependencies. But FEW get the hard parts rights. E.g., compiling LaTeX with multiple figures, custom fonts and classes, and multiple bib files. It requires correctly interfacing with p…
I've been using WAF for ages so naturally I wonder how this system compares to WAF? My experience with build systems is that they all get the easy parts rights. You can compile C and C++ code and they successfully scan header files for dependencies. But FEW get the hard parts rights. E.g., compiling LaTeX with multiple figures, custom fonts and classes, and multiple bib files. It requires correctly interfacing with p…
what is WAF?
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I'm 80% finished moving all of my servers from NixOS to Debian. I used NixOS for 3 years (even wrote some custom flakes) before finally giving up (for the final year I was just too scared to touch it, and then said "I shouldn't be scared of my OS"). I should know what "derivation" means, but I can't for the life of me remember...
Yeah I ended up with the same issue. While I’m technically inclined, I’m not nearly to the point where I can handle the fire hose of (badly named) abstraction at all levels like some people. I could never have pulled off what this guy did https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kv... , though ironically his journal is probably one of the best “how nix actually works” tutorials I’ve ever seen, even t…
I've been using WAF for ages so naturally I wonder how this system compares to WAF? My experience with build systems is that they all get the easy parts rights. You can compile C and C++ code and they successfully scan header files for dependencies. But FEW get the hard parts rights. E.g., compiling LaTeX with multiple figures, custom fonts and classes, and multiple bib files. It requires correctly interfacing with p…
is it impossible to fix that issue in pdflatex?
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As a new user, I learned flakes first, and the tie-in with git tags/branches and the corresponding cli ergonomics aren’t something I’d be able to give up.
How do you handle flakes pushing an entire copy of the repo into the nix store? Is this not an issue for you somehow?
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Yeah I ended up with the same issue. While I’m technically inclined, I’m not nearly to the point where I can handle the fire hose of (badly named) abstraction at all levels like some people. I could never have pulled off what this guy did https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kv... , though ironically his journal is probably one of the best “how nix actually works” tutorials I’ve ever seen, even t…
I'm about to start a project where I thought Nix might be useful. What do I need to watch out for? Where is it going to piss me off and send me back to Docker?
You'll spend a LOT of time fighting the system, which gets old fast. Docker may have a sucky plan format (and they STILL won't let you set your goddamn MAC address), but it's good enough for most things and not too terrible to learn.