| 20 Mar 2025 |
 emily | but in practice if we wanted to support it in Nixpkgs, we'd bundle all of them into stdenv, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable trade-off, even if it's not the most beautiful possible world. adding libmath everywhere would just piss people off and usually not happen | 21:09:03 |
 John Ericson | that was the hope | 21:16:53 |
| emily | then in that case it might be good, but in the current architecture we have it's better to have libiconv in stdenv than to try and get through 5,000 patches to add libiconv to deps lists because "it's needed on OpenBSD" | 21:18:54 |
| emily | since people will never reliably get it right if it only breaks on an obscure platform, and having (perceived-as-)noise in a package only required for one platform annoys people | 21:19:12 |
