| 31 Mar 2025 |
 trofi | I had to throw away a bunch of .nix code that added env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE =" -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG"; to nix package because I have no idea how to do it for nix-2.26. For other package sets in nixpkgs my default action of to stick a patch into local nixpkgs checkout because I have no idea how they work from a set to a set. | 22:10:17 |
 Robert Hensing (roberth) | I think the packaging layers we've developed for mkDerivation could be useful outside Nix for other meson-based projects | 22:10:46 |
 raitobezarius | as I kind of have joint authority over the Nixpkgs packaging of Lix, I read it but I'm not super convinced personally | 22:11:27 |
| raitobezarius | I feel like it violates too the principle of least astonishment for packagers and consumers | 22:11:37 |
| raitobezarius | Like it's interesting from a technological PoV | 22:11:42 |
| raitobezarius | But I would not use this for Lix because this is far too out of the Overton window on how do you do packaging in Nixpkgs | 22:12:00 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | .overrideAllMesonPackages is like .overrideAttrs but for all packages at once | 22:12:10 |
| raitobezarius | If it were up to me, I'd have duplicated the experimental packaging and the normal packaging | 22:12:14 |
| raitobezarius | And keep both for a while while documenting how to do things in the normal way in the newest way | 22:12:27 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @roberthensing:matrix.org
.overrideAllMesonPackages is like .overrideAttrs but for all packages at once I kinda don't understand why this is not just like an .override at the scope level | 22:12:57 |
| raitobezarius | and why does it have to be a overrideAllMesonPackages | 22:13:08 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | .override is for a single callPackage call. This is a package set | 22:13:29 |
| raitobezarius | If the package set gets callPackage while taking the scope as args, you can override the packages inside of the set with a single .override call | 22:14:25 |
| raitobezarius | or am I missing something? | 22:14:31 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | We might have to do something like that if overriding is really that important | 22:14:37 |
| trofi | Ah, nice. I'll give it a try. | 22:14:38 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Maybe nix.overrideAttrs could throw a useful error referring to a monolithic nixVersions.nix_mono package to ease the transition | 22:17:07 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | as well as docs that refer to it | 22:17:44 |
