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2 Apr 2025
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilysorry, I definitely do not have the time and do not feel I understand the packaging well enough to :(20:41:03
@Ericson2314:matrix.orgJohn EricsonI guessed I mixed up my metaphors here, what about just on the monolithic package?20:42:03
@Ericson2314:matrix.orgJohn Ericson(poly package maintenance for systemd is an orthogonal question)20:43:04
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilyis the idea to keep the monolithic package around? I assumed that we'd want to switch to the componentized one early in 25.11 to shake out any issues well ahead of release20:56:43
@Ericson2314:matrix.orgJohn Ericson emily: yes, yeah the idea is to get rid it early in the cycle 20:59:57
@Ericson2314:matrix.orgJohn Ericsonso we are not in this some position come november21:00:02
@fzakaria:one.ems.hostfzakaria

I asked this on twitter but maybe here is a better place.
On my MacOS Nix installation (2.26) I'm surprised in my flake project how often I hit:

unpacking 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b7ba7f9f45c5cd0d8625e9e217c28f8eb6a19a76' into the Git cache.

22:55:51
@fzakaria:one.ems.hostfzakariaIs this a bug in Nix or something I'm missing.22:56:04
3 Apr 2025
@Ericson2314:matrix.orgJohn Ericson* so we are not in this same position come november03:12:00
@mjolnir:nixos.orgNixOS Moderation Bot banned @cafkafk:fem.gg@cafkafk:fem.gg (<no reason supplied>).11:41:55
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92 fzakaria: what do you mean by often? is this for the same commit? 12:16:39
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92 I can also recommend: nixpkgs.url = "git+https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs?shallow=1&ref=main"; 12:17:10
@2xsaiko:tchncs.de@2xsaiko:tchncs.de changed their display name from 2xsaiko to 2xsaiko (moved! @saiko:knifepoint.net).12:52:04
@keiichi:matrix.orgteto does the shallow do anything ? I would suspect it's the default 17:50:38
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilyGitHub really doesn't like people doing shallow clones of the same repo repeatedly, fwiw. (they've had other package managers change their update mechanism because of that in the past)19:22:16
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_i would never recommend this over a tarball input. if it's a nix bug, nix should fix it.20:44:34

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