| 25 Jan 2024 |
 infinisil | I'll create an issue on the nix.dev repo for this | 17:43:25 |
| infinisil | danielsidhion: Unrelated to the above, relevant issue for you: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/423 | 17:45:41 |
| infinisil | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
I'll create an issue on the nix.dev repo for this https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/869 | 18:13:54 |
| 26 Jan 2024 |
 @qyriad:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
I personally don't think they're as useful as they're made out to be, and would favor deprecating them They're missing a lot but also they're the only real place that explains callPackage which is essential to understanding Nixpkgs | 09:36:32 |
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 asymmetric | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Since nix.dev only really concerns the docs team, we can easily move it to docs.nix.dev without going through an RFC by just reaching consensus among the team i think you mean docs.nixors.org here? | 11:57:38 |
| asymmetric | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Since nix.dev only really concerns the docs team, we can easily move it to docs.nix.dev without going through an RFC by just reaching consensus among the team * i think you mean docs.nixos.org here? | 11:57:54 |
| infinisil | Ahh whoops, yes! | 11:58:09 |
| infinisil | * Since nix.dev only really concerns the docs team, we can easily move it to <del>docs.nix.dev</del> docs.nixos.org without going through an RFC by just reaching consensus among the team | 11:59:22 |
 @9999years:matrix.org | In reply to @qyriad:matrix.org
They're missing a lot but also they're the only real place that explains callPackage which is essential to understanding Nixpkgs i actually really like the nix pills. they're a gentle introduction to nix that does a good job at motivating why it's useful & bundles together writing nix expressions with nixpkgs architecture concepts | 17:53:00 |
| @qyriad:matrix.org | Yes very much agreed on that | 17:53:16 |
| @9999years:matrix.org | having helped a few people get started with nix recently, none of them have found the nix pills on their own though | 17:53:33 |
| @9999years:matrix.org | i would support rewriting the nix pills and moving them into a tutorial or getting started guide on nix.dev though | 17:53:51 |
| 27 Jan 2024 |
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 @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @qyriad:matrix.org
They're missing a lot but also they're the only real place that explains callPackage which is essential to understanding Nixpkgs including in reference docs. there are no callPackage reference docs (!) | 00:12:03 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | 9999years wrote some docs for it but they were in a pr that was rejected for containing guide level docs | 00:12:52 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | (in nixpkgs) | 00:13:01 |
| @9999years:matrix.org | theoretically i could've moved them over to nix.dev but i don't think the signposting is good enough for anyone to find them yet | 00:13:49 |
| @9999years:matrix.org | i also want to get this resolved before adding more 'guide' material
https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/845 | 00:21:33 |
 fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
9999years wrote some docs for it but they were in a pr that was rejected for containing guide level docs I actually started messing around with that and got stuck in a rabbit hole to refactor callPackage... | 02:09:23 |
| infinisil | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
9999years wrote some docs for it but they were in a pr that was rejected for containing guide level docs This is the PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/270696
I think it's dishonest to call that rejected. I just said that part of that PR should go to nix.dev instead. I even mentioned that the content is looking good. | 03:45:53 |
| infinisil | Btw I'm fairly lenient with documentation (at least recently). I don't really care about how stuff is written down exactly. I just check some basic stuff like if it's in the right place, if it's correct, etc. As long as that's the case, I'm willing to merge doc changes | 03:52:45 |
| infinisil | This is in contrast to actual interface changes in the code, which are full of intricacies that we can't easily revert once committed. So I take much more care in reviewing such PRs :) | 03:54:31 |
 Charles | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/264621#issuecomment-1910806642 this kind of thing should probably go in the nixos manual shouldn't it? (i thought i'd ask here first since i don't want to comment on this PR just to be wrong lol) | 04:34:02 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | I think that was a misread/miscommunication then, sorry about that. | 05:05:50 |
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| 28 Jan 2024 |
| infinisil | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
I think that was a misread/miscommunication then, sorry about that. All good ❤️ | 03:01:42 |
