| 13 May 2024 |
 samrose | it's really nice to manage building projects local/ci, etc | 23:41:38 |
 Qyriad | yeah | 23:42:00 |
| Qyriad | hell, eza explicitly recommends that anyone developing on it use Nix to do so | 23:42:26 |
 hexa | cafkafk at it again | 23:42:52 |
| samrose | In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
there are plenty of reasons to use Nix on non-NixOS (Linux) systems tbh I wonder what some good approaches to testing this would be | 23:43:27 |
 fwam | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
cafkafk at it again hm? | 23:43:56 |
| hexa | she maintains eza | 23:44:04 |
| fwam | that i know | 23:44:08 |
| hexa | and has recently become a nixpkgs committer | 23:44:11 |
| Qyriad | oh asdkgl | 23:44:13 |
| fwam | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
and has recently become a nixpkgs committer "recently" | 23:44:18 |
| Qyriad | didn't realize that was her | 23:44:21 |
| hexa | In reply to @fwam:femdom.solutions
"recently" say what you want to say š¤· | 23:44:44 |
| fwam | huh, she still follows me on github, interesting | 23:44:58 |
| Qyriad | In reply to@samrose:matrix.org
I wonder what some good approaches to testing this would be we've been wondering about this. honestly we were wondering if using the NixOS test driver to boot into NixOS, and then do the opposite of nixos-infect and neuter it from within | 23:45:04 |
| samrose | In reply to @samrose:matrix.org
I wonder what some good approaches to testing this would be It almost doesn't seem like it matters what distro nix is being used on, but more of if packages, build, install | 23:45:07 |
| Qyriad | the biggest difference between Lix on NixOS and non NixOS is how Lix is installed | 23:45:33 |
| fwam | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
say what you want to say š¤· started in 2022, active since june 2023 | 23:45:43 |
| Qyriad | /run/current-system/sw/bin/nix vs /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/nix, namely | 23:45:43 |
 isabel | In reply to @fwam:femdom.solutions
"recently" I believe he means she's able to merge PRs | 23:45:50 |
| fwam | ah | 23:46:02 |
| isabel | not that she's made her first contributionĀ | 23:46:02 |
| samrose | In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
/run/current-system/sw/bin/nix vs /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/nix, namely yes and in general you are dealing with "profiles", and path aliases | 23:47:06 |
| fwam | In reply to @isabel:isabelroses.com
I believe he means she's able to merge PRs fair | 23:48:05 |
| samrose | "nix flake apps" also work well on non-nixos systems, and I've been surprised that more people do not use them to run services and programs | 23:48:07 |
| fwam | can't say i like using nix flake outside of nixos, tbh | 23:48:36 |
| fwam | * can't say i like using nix flakes outside of nixos, tbh | 23:48:41 |
| Qyriad | nix run does kind of magically make arbitrarily-complex-packaged software trivially usable | 23:48:46 |
| samrose | and possibly could be a good way to write repeatable tests too | 23:48:56 |
| Qyriad | In reply to@fwam:femdom.solutions
can't say i like using nix flakes outside of nixos, tbh why? and we ask this as selves-admitted flakeā¦ well, not haters, but we're very "ugh flakes" | 23:49:26 |
