| 20 Mar 2025 |
 K900 | Also, no, Nix does not provide a busybox shell | 17:18:51 |
| K900 | Nix provides whatever shell it's configured with at build time | 17:18:59 |
| K900 | Which in case of Nixpkgs nix is a Nixpkgs shell | 17:19:09 |
| K900 | Which makes this whole idea weirdly mutually recursive | 17:19:17 |
| K900 | You want easier bootstrapping, we have minimal bootstrap for that | 17:19:31 |
 Philip Taron (UTC-8) | (To be clear, this was a "I want to play around with this cursed thing in order to learn" not a serious proposal for how to do it.) | 17:21:36 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | * (To be clear, this was a "I want to play around with this cursed thing in order to learn" not a serious proposal for how to do it in nixpkgs production.) | 17:22:37 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Previous experimentation: https://determinate.systems/posts/nuenv/ | 17:23:23 |
 Tristan Ross | There's a reason why I mentioned "concept" | 17:24:25 |
| Tristan Ross | We don't have to fully implement it but it could be an interesting thing to show what is capable | 17:24:53 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Other related proposals that involve shipping computational machinery with Nix:
- System-agnostic builders
- Nix on WASI
libnixstore-pure
| 17:26:16 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Yes, and I believe it's wired through to provide busybox-sandbox-shell specifically. Is that incorrect? | 17:34:10 |
| K900 | Yes, but that is not magically there, it needs to be bootstrapped | 17:34:59 |
| K900 | And on whatever host you're bootstrapping from, it can be something else entirely | 17:35:14 |
| K900 | So it should not be relied on | 17:35:18 |
| Tristan Ross | That's fair, though for exploring this concept I don't think that'd have an impact with native. | 17:38:27 |
| Tristan Ross | Splitting up lib.systems, likely will be organized into a few different PR's based on what is being touched. Once the feature lands, I'd like to start wiring up the linker to work. | 18:42:16 |
| Tristan Ross | I've been thinking that it'd be nice to be able to override lib.systems to be able to change a lot of it. Like if someone wants to add a new platform, it could be done there without a PR. It should be possible to implement new platforms with overlays. Obviously, if someone wants to upstream that work then it should be possible. | 19:59:32 |
|  Grimmauld (moving to @grimmauld:grapevine.grimmauld.de) joined the room. | 20:12:15 |
