| 30 Jul 2021 |
 polykernel | I see, thanks for the help | 03:20:13 |
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| 1 Aug 2021 |
| polykernel | is there a way to call a flake within a nix expression, would I have to use builtins.getFlake? | 22:06:22 |
 elonsroadster | So I think I want to do something that would generally be regarded as a bad idea. I get that flakes are supposed to be as pure as possible, but I really want to be able to know what directory the flake is defined in, because I want to be able to talk about paths relative to that flake. The reason I want to do this is that I want to add to certain paths in my dotfiles to the global path environment variable. I realize that the nixy way to do this would be to actually add all of the relevant paths/scripts to the nix store and add them that way, but I don't want to have to explicitly rebuild to get new versions of all the scripts every time they are changed. | 22:17:08 |
| 2 Aug 2021 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I mean, you can't...? | 00:17:30 |
| elonsroadster | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
I mean, you can't...? even with --impure? Is there a way you can pass an argument to a flake | 02:30:12 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I guess you could do nix build --expr and pass it an expression where you're providing the path of where the scripts are. | 04:12:25 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | Not sure that's any better than just ... setting it via convention and then hard-coding it. Either way you're making an un-enforceable assumption. | 04:12:51 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | Right? If you build that into the toplevel, nothing stops you from just... not cloning the scripts there and forgetting and putting it in the wrong place. | 04:13:56 |
| elonsroadster | couldn't i do something like builtins getEnv if I use --impure | 07:13:31 |
| elonsroadster | no i guess that wont work, because the file will already be in the store | 07:26:41 |
 Las | In reply to @elonsroadster:matrix.org
So I think I want to do something that would generally be regarded as a bad idea. I get that flakes are supposed to be as pure as possible, but I really want to be able to know what directory the flake is defined in, because I want to be able to talk about paths relative to that flake. The reason I want to do this is that I want to add to certain paths in my dotfiles to the global path environment variable. I realize that the nixy way to do this would be to actually add all of the relevant paths/scripts to the nix store and add them that way, but I don't want to have to explicitly rebuild to get new versions of all the scripts every time they are changed. You don't have to do this | 08:15:37 |
| Las | That's a really bad solution honestly | 08:15:44 |
| Las | You can just refer to the paths normally | 08:15:53 |
| Las | With " | 08:15:58 |
| Las | Just don't depend on them being where the flake is | 08:16:17 |
| elonsroadster | Las: well yeah i dont want to do that though | 08:16:30 |
| Las | There are a lot of situations where it wouldn't work | 08:16:34 |
| Las | Your flake's source is imported into the Nix store, after that it has no idea where it came from | 08:17:03 |
| elonsroadster | Las: yes i know that, thats why im asking the question | 08:17:14 |
| elonsroadster | i want to do something impure in a flake, and I know thats wrong, so i kind of get why this is sort of dumb | 08:17:38 |
| Las | Well then there's nothing to say other than it's fundamentally impossible | 08:17:43 |
| Las | It's not even just impure | 08:17:47 |
| Las | It's impossible | 08:17:49 |
| elonsroadster | its not impossible -- you could eg patch nix | 08:18:14 |
| Las | You could if you want have builtins.getEnv "THEPATH" in your flake and set THEPATH before evaluating it | 08:18:28 |
| Las | It would be a very complicated patch | 08:18:43 |
| Las | It isn't trivial | 08:18:45 |
 niksnut | Maybe I'm missing something about the question, but if you have a derivation in your flake that has an attribute like src = ./foo.c, then it will only depend on that file and changes to other files in the flake won't trigger a rebuild. | 17:15:27 |
