today I learned: nixpkgs clears the default search path for for some reason (I guess to improve sandboxing), meaning that the linker won’t look in e.g. /usr/lib if it can’t find something any other way (it’ll just fail).
this breaks doing things like running games on non-NixOS systems, since you need to get libGL.so.1 from somewhere (and you can’t even set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib, since then everything in there will take precedence over the rpath in the binary and screw things up even more).
