| 7 Mar 2024 |
 @jade_:matrix.org | ffs | 17:39:59 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | can we fix our bugs 😠| 17:40:08 |
 Eli Flanagan | lol, sorry, what does ffs mean? | 17:40:20 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | uhhh, it was uncalled for sorry | 17:40:34 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | I'm just frustrated | 17:40:39 |
| Eli Flanagan | oh, no worries at all! I'm a jargon freak so love to expand my lexicon. | 17:40:55 |
 infinisil | I wouldn't mind Nix just getting a feature freeze until a large part of bugs are fixed | 17:41:08 |
| Eli Flanagan | I'll infer frustration frustration :) | 17:41:15 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
I wouldn't mind Nix just getting a feature freeze until a large part of bugs are fixed nixpkgs did it already, the nix team just needs to actually consider what it means | 17:41:36 |
| infinisil | Oh didn't think of it that way, but yeah Nixpkgs sure did! | 17:41:56 |
| Eli Flanagan | For me, I've been learning the value of having these tiny roadblock issues documented with quick workarounds. They feel like minor things, not worthy of official documentation. In my understanding, community tips/tricks that are discoverable. | 17:43:47 |
| Eli Flanagan | Correct me if I'm wrong: https://nixos.wiki/ is not a good place for this. | 17:44:08 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | correct! | 17:44:25 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | imo this one is a bug though | 17:44:29 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | we should fix it | 17:44:32 |
| Eli Flanagan | hmm. What path does prefix refer to here? | 17:48:40 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @efx:matrix.org
hmm. What path does prefix refer to here? --prefix passed to configure | 17:52:03 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | when building the program | 17:52:11 |
 danielsidhion | It's defined in a previous page when installing from source: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/building-source | 17:52:14 |
 Philip Taron (UTC-8) | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
we should fix it Perhaps off-topic to #docs:nixos.org but what would you imagine a fix would be? | 17:52:28 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @philiptaron:matrix.org
Perhaps off-topic to #docs:nixos.org but what would you imagine a fix would be? unsure. i think the rc file isn't read at all, yeah? then i think some sshd config drop in ought to be added to the installer unless you have better ideas | 17:53:17 |
| Eli Flanagan | ah, makes sense. Thanks for the context folks! | 17:54:27 |
| danielsidhion | In reply to @efx:matrix.org
ooh, thanks for that link! I had not seen that before. My immediate context was trying nix copy to ssh://myhost myclosure. I searched discourse, then started digging in the stable reference manual. By stable reference manual do you mean the nixpkgs manual? Just want to be sure, because we have 3 "big manuals", one for nix, one for nixos, and another for nixpkgs | 17:55:32 |
| Eli Flanagan | In reply to @danielsidhion:nixos.dev
By stable reference manual do you mean the nixpkgs manual? Just want to be sure, because we have 3 "big manuals", one for nix, one for nixos, and another for nixpkgs good question! my "search the docs" tends to round robin those. Lately I've trying to stick to the nix stable manual. Though I'll read nix unstable manual as I assume unstable may have more accurate documentation. | 17:56:58 |
| Eli Flanagan | Perhaps we mention a workaround to this issue here https://nix.dev/guides/troubleshooting? | 18:02:09 |
| Eli Flanagan | I began this quest with nix-store command not found error messages when I started trying nix copy. | 18:02:51 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @efx:matrix.org
Perhaps we mention a workaround to this issue here https://nix.dev/guides/troubleshooting? imo the software should either fix the bug or admit to the bug and link to a help page | 18:03:28 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | which links to bug reports say | 18:03:37 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | change the error message to tell you a Web site that says how to fix it | 18:04:09 |
| Eli Flanagan | That would be nice! that would be a patch to nix ? | 18:04:37 |
