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soupglasses, 5 months ago

@ebassi I don't know how I missed this. I feel bad now. 😭

"Folder formatting" is primarily the idea that one could write up a format string to allow f.x. "Screenshots/2023/03/12:53:26.png" instead of filling a single folder up. I wouldn't mind this being a dconf thing. Motivated since my screenshot folder is at that size now where Files regularly freezes due to its sheer size of screenshots.

Do you know if Gnome is interested in upstreamed contributions?

soupglasses, 6 months ago

@sandro I'm not sure. I'm just trying to package a CMake project but it doesn't export/install correctly and it's ending up being one of the hardest undertakings I have done in months.

I just want to make it export the files to the right location. :blobfoxcry2:

soupglasses, 7 months ago

@fasterthanlime Reminds me of some production code i worked on that had a --dry-run which wasn't actually a dry run, but the toggle meant it cleaned up after itself inside the prod database after it had ran... :blobfoxnotlikethis:

soupglasses, 8 months ago

@nixos_org Why are you sharing this? Flakehub is made by a for profit company as a closed sourced platform. It is by no means of the word "freedom" and its disgusting that you as a FOSS project chose this word. Further, this has in no way any involvement with #NixOS as a Foundation or its projects.

This constant conflict of interest that keeps sparking issues due to the Foundation's leadership being so closely linked to Determinate Systems is not okay.

This needs change, now.

soupglasses, 9 months ago

@publicvoit From a quick poke, it may be related to this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89302

From personal experience. It may be that home-manager loads your packages into the environment late, where xfce has already done its package search and not found them.

So a good first look would likely be to see how/when xfce reads in its packages. For example, maybe it needs ~/.profile and doesnt read ~/.bash_profile.

Hope this gets you on a trail. :blobfoxhappy:

soupglasses, 9 months ago

@publicvoit The simplest solution here is if it is NixOS to put the packages at the system layer instead of at the user layer.

soupglasses, 9 months ago

@publicvoit Where to report it would likely be inside of the home-manager repo, as this is specifically home-manager related and not NixOS's fault.

Currently there is 0 issues related to xfce plugins that i can find, so it can be a good place to get it fixed more officially. :revblobfoxread:

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues

soupglasses, 9 months ago

@publicvoit Another method to fix this is to generate the xfconf with the package binary paths directly embedded. This is pretty common and often recommended in the world of Nix instead of relying on $PATH being populated.

You can see an example here: https://rycee.gitlab.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-xfconf.settings

So it would require you to figure out how to define the plugin binary and set it as:

... = "${xfce.xfce4-xkb-plugin}/bin/xfce4-xkb-plugin"

:blobfoxfloofcofe:

soupglasses, 9 months ago

@BBCRD Hello and welcome to Fediverse! Tuning in from #Hachyderm :hachyderm:

:blobfoxwave:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@Mehrad Guix does not ship nongnu (unfree) packages like Steam and Nvidia drivers.

Personally i like the terseness of Nix's language compared to Guix's lisp base.

Its good to remember that Guix is more a fork of Nix that then built its ideas on top in Lisp with its own package-set.

In all, if you are okay with or like Guix's limitations, its really hard to go wrong with it. But equally so, Nix is also a solid choice that is also hard to go wrong with. Neither is "better" than the other.

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@Mehrad Another great thing with Nix-like packaging is how easy it is to do as well.

Is a package you want not in there? Well you can add it with 10 minutes of your time and a PR. I know nixpkgs further also includes an automatic test suite and auto-created PRs for updates to simplify the maintenance process further. Making it a blast to package and maintain stuff.

:blobfoxlurk:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@Mehrad The above was the "limitations". I have an nvidia graphics card for example on one of my machines, making it pretty much go out the window.

Also it is important to state that Guix does not have non-free channels. There is a community effort outside of Guix to have a nongnu/nonfree repo, but you are not allowed to explicitly talk or link to it in Guix official channels.

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@Mehrad Yeah. My advice is to think "Do you want to write Guile or Nix", as that is gonna be the primary one to boil it down to.

Only other one to consider is the guix cli vs nix3 cli. Both work well, Guix is a bit more lax with how experimental it lets itself be, but not in any really worrying way.

Personally I am a big fan of Nix's Flakes interface, which Guix has no feature-set similar to.

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro @Mehrad Yeah. Guix runs Shepherd instead of SystemD for example. This can be a big limiting factor for example if you are running servers that you want to isolate with f.x. cgroups. Shepherd may have something similar, but i have failed to find anything similar. :blobfoxthink:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro @Mehrad Nix's language is great. How it teaches itself causes years worth of pain for anyone getting into it alone.

I wish i could write proper official docs to help people learn. I had to learn from watching videos of prominent people in the NixOS space doing random Nix stuff, just listening to all the small comments as much as possible. :blobfoxsad:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro what does c3d2 stand for? 👀

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@GossiTheDog Further

• access to a moderator account/RCE you can effectively suspend every account as well, making all accounts unrecoverable from backup.

A solution would be similar to GPG, where the secret server keys are derived from a master key not online/accessible to the server. Currently i don't think mastodon's code supports off-server key-master derivations. :blobfoxnotlikethis:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro I am curious if there is something Nixpkgs can do to prioritize a package to get into nixos-unstable faster. :blobfox3c:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro I know https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 and https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3920 would help allow each end user to apply a patch directly themselves. But realistically it should be handled on nixpkgs side to shorten the time for critical release fixes.

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro Yeah currently im running a mkSystem function which can do this for me when any patches are applied: https://github.com/soupglasses/coturnix/blob/main/nixos/lib/mkSystem.nix#L3-L13

Very excited for when fetchTree can handle patching itself, as then this all would be greatly simplified. :blobfoxaww:

soupglasses, 10 months ago

@sandro Yeah... its by no means pretty. But having vs. not having patches, its sadly the better choice to take.

Trying to keep its use to a minimum, and instead apply overlays whenever possible. But not every PR fits neatly into an overlay I'm afraid. :blobfoxnotlikethis: