| 2 Oct 2025 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | since the package set is a 60k+ line autogenerated file that takes about 4 hours to update if you're lucky | 04:35:58 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | so its just not a good idea to ever keep it around | 04:36:09 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | whether its in- or out-of-tree | 04:36:15 |
 Charles | (being a monorepo is one of nixpkgs' strengths imo) | 04:36:17 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | also yeah i agree with that | 04:36:23 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | * also yeah i agree with that ^ | 04:36:25 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | nixpkgs being a monorepo is nice | 04:36:30 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | i think a polyrepo approach would be good if we were starting from scratch but as a single project atm nixpkgs being one repo is good | 04:37:31 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | there's a lot of complexity involved with polyrepo setups | 04:37:42 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | * there's a lot of complexity involved with polyrepo setups that doesnt exist with monorepos | 04:37:48 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | theres also a lot of complexity with monorepos you don't have with polyrepos | 04:38:02 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | so its a tradeoff and i think nixpkgs made the right one | 04:38:09 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | but thats immaterial to the fact that nodePackages sucks and we need to kill it with fire | 04:38:28 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | anyone who does a PR has my gratitude and you are more than welcome to ping me for reviews on them | 04:38:42 |
| Charles | i think i prefer being able to make treewide changes in a single commit and being able to bisect everything at once | 04:38:46 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | * anyone who does a PR removing stuff from it has my gratitude and you are more than welcome to ping me for reviews on them | 04:38:47 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | is a nice thing yeah | 04:39:26 |
| Charles | * i think i prefer being able to make treewide changes in a single commit and being able to bisect everything at once (stopping now to not derail the conversation too much more) | 04:39:38 |
 Emma [it/its] | i hope prettier/node-ts stay in nixpkg though (theyre nice to have) | 04:39:49 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | well if they are migrated to pkgs/by-name and out of nodePackages they can stay | 04:40:25 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | feel free to migrate them yourself if you want to | 04:40:31 |
| Emma [it/its] | ah, i dont remember if they are but oh well, worst case someone brings them back under by-name | 04:41:27 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | prettier was migrated a while ago | 04:42:08 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | but ts-node is still in nodePackages | 04:42:14 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | it should be easy to migrate with the new yarn-berry lockfile tooling in nixpkgs | 04:42:27 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable#javascript-yarn-v3-v4 | 04:43:45 |
| Emma [it/its] | Honestly i kinda liked the categorisation via nodePackages | 04:46:42 |
| Emma [it/its] | Or well, namespacing i guess | 04:47:01 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | that would be okay | 04:58:24 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | but not if its unmaintainable like nodePackages is | 04:58:55 |
