| 12 Jan 2026 |
 raitobezarius | this too | 22:23:23 |
| raitobezarius | :> | 22:23:25 |
 SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | Oh | 23:29:57 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | I see. I thought the concept was scheme-specific. After all, there's no host in file://? | 23:31:03 |
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @ss:someonex.net
I see. I thought the concept was scheme-specific. After all, there's no host in file://? Well, technically there can be. Windows UNC paths do that | 23:31:41 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Or at least the spec says so. Practice is another matter entirely | 23:32:23 |
 emily | that's why it's file:///etc/passwd rather than file://etc/passwd | 23:34:36 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
that's why it's file:///etc/passwd rather than file://etc/passwd Also file:/path/to/file also is fine - though the rfc says it’s kind of less widespread and now the empty authority is preferred to the “no authority” case | 23:35:42 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Funnily enough git itself parses file:/path/to/blah as an SCP-style path where file is the hostname | 23:36:21 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | Ah, there is that too, file:///foo has an empty host. | 23:38:30 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
that's why it's file:///etc/passwd rather than file://etc/passwd * Also file:/path/to/file is fine - though the rfc says it’s kind of less widespread and now the empty authority is preferred to the “no authority” case | 23:38:27 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | * | 23:39:27 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | OK, so say flakerefs are valid (ish) URLs as they are. What of "installables"? One refers to attributes in flake.nix as ref#path. Should there be a way to refer to the attributes in a default.nix? | 23:48:35 |
| raitobezarius | yes | 23:55:19 |
| raitobezarius | but not using # | 23:55:23 |
| raitobezarius | this was a large mistake | 23:55:29 |
| 13 Jan 2026 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | Do you have a specific proposal in mind? | 00:11:20 |
| raitobezarius | idk, it's being debated | 00:13:48 |
| raitobezarius | maybe nix run $url -A attr ? | 00:13:55 |
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| 15 Jan 2026 |
 Mic92 | https://github.com/NixOS/org/issues/227 Move nix-eval-jobs from nix-community to NixOS | 17:19:08 |
| 16 Jan 2026 |
 Jens Petersen | Could someone please please have a look at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14922 ? | 01:03:44 |
 dramforever | In reply to @flokli:matrix.org
https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/high-quality-nix-content/raw/master/memes/nix-path-supports-urls.jpg lol i made this meme waaaaay back | 09:25:59 |
| dramforever | i thought it was lost | 09:26:04 |
| dramforever | at least it's not loss | 09:26:24 |
| Jens Petersen | I have been experimenting with using a bind mount for /nix in fedora - so far looks promising
The idea is just to bind /var/nix to /nix when possible - this would allow nix to to use normally in an atomic/immutable OS
I can share the fedora PR if anyone interested | 15:14:56 |
| Jens Petersen | * I have been experimenting with using a bind mount for /nix in fedora - so far looks promising
The idea is just to bind /var/nix to /nix when possible - this would allow nix to be used normally in an atomic/immutable OS
I can share the fedora PR if anyone interested | 15:15:22 |
