| 12 Jan 2026 |
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @ss:someonex.net
But nix path parsing is already stateful, so you could make a backwards incompatible change to accommodate those? Greedy behaviour here would have been nice, but from my discussion with raito that’s not exactly a priority atm | 17:39:42 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Valentin had a meme for this | 17:40:23 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | 
Download ima_fc5f740.jpeg | 17:42:23 |
 raitobezarius | it would be ideal to find a path forward to destroy NIX_PATH parsing | 18:15:16 |
| raitobezarius | especially due to the meme | 18:15:24 |
 Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | https://gist.github.com/Kranzes/da0ee0920adf9ce94183b6cec3bbe9c2 | 18:24:28 |
 Robert Hensing (roberth) | I think a lot of folks share that sentiment, on a spectrum between discourage and destroy. What would you suggest for a solution? | 18:24:30 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | FWIW: That search path is taken from the docs of findFile, makes it a whole lot more confusing when you realize it works with -I but not with NIX_PATH | 18:25:12 |
| raitobezarius | There's not much solutions to propose at this step | 18:25:26 |
| raitobezarius | It depends on a rework of the setting system | 18:25:32 |
| raitobezarius | because it is deeply related to that | 18:25:36 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | FWIW, I get totally different behavior on Lix, something with how Lix ignores NIX_PATH with flakes maybe? I'm really not sure | 18:26:53 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @kranzes:matrix.org
https://gist.github.com/Kranzes/da0ee0920adf9ce94183b6cec3bbe9c2 I also have a feeling that port in URL’s authority will parse funnily | 18:27:11 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | They do. | 18:28:08 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | Try this one /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarballs/master:nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable:foo=http://example.com:8080/path:flake-compat=flake:github:edolstra/flake-compat | 18:30:18 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Indeed quite funny (in a sad way) | 18:31:19 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | I hate that NixOS populates a local registry nowadays | 18:32:22 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | I forget the distinction between local and system one | 18:33:13 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | ohh right there's more local ones? Do they even have defined names? I hate it | 18:34:18 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | 
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| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | It feels so wrong having to reimplement the broken behavior of NIX_PATH parsing | 18:34:39 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | If it was "correct" it should've had all the 5 variants, not just 4, remote flakes are broken in NIX_PATH, and so are URLs with colons (not sure if they even work in -I) | 18:36:40 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | I'm glad you've joined us in our suffering | 18:36:48 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | welcome to the club | 18:36:52 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | Also the C++ implementation is very very misleading, it has this "isPesudoUrl" function, that's not even being used correctly, and suggets there are far more schema types like "ssh" or "s3" | 18:37:56 |
| raitobezarius | but you should probably follow this idea and implement it correctly | 18:38:16 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | this function came originally form libstore 9 years ago, but was moved because it's only used for NIX_PATH, but that doesnt even make sense, because it has things that dont even work on NIX_PATH | 18:38:40 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | for example, the ssh thing, if you put an ssh URI, i get an error from curl about unsupported protocol | 18:39:12 |
| raitobezarius | and if you put a finger url… | 18:39:41 |
| Ilan Joselevich (Kranzes) | there's also funny errors from S3 too | 18:40:00 |
