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27 Jul 2022
@sandro:supersandro.deSandro 🐧Why is that issue in nixos-search? That just consumes the metadata.13:32:15
@linus:schreibt.jetztLinux Hackerman because nixos-search is what suggests nix-env -iA nixos.docker 13:33:03
@sandro:supersandro.deSandro 🐧at least the meta data changes don't really go well into nixos-search repo13:54:02
@sandro:supersandro.deSandro 🐧also that advice is completely wrong in general and we should just remove it13:54:22
@dramforever:matrix.orgdramforeverAgreed. One of the things that might be confusing is that 'install' doesn't mean the same thing as what you'd expect from other package managers, so that's nice to address.15:12:50
28 Jul 2022
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29 Jul 2022
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@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennae should we introduce a couple more inline roles for option docs constructs that don't have exact equivalents in markdown yet? <package> and <code> are the most common tags that we can currently only translate as normal code blocks (which turn into <literal>), but distinguishing those three things seems not entirely useful 19:14:23
@jtojnar:matrix.orgJan TojnarI do not think there is much distinction between literal and code20:14:48
@jtojnar:matrix.orgJan Tojnaror rather, the markdown backticks semantically represent inline code, if anything20:15:31
@jtojnar:matrix.orgJan Tojnarand we have already started mushing literals into it20:15:52
@jtojnar:matrix.orgJan Tojnarpackage, maybe20:16:25
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaeit's not too late to undo all the markdown migrations and add a role for literals if that would be useful20:17:55
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaewe now have the tooling to do this automatically, it wouldn't hurt a whole lot20:18:43
@jtojnar:matrix.orgJan TojnarI was thinking the other manuals as well22:14:49
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaethat...would be a lot more effort. :/22:38:50
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennae most of the remaining uncoverted docs after https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/183491 are held back by either links that don't round-trip, admonitions, or manpage references. <package> turns up only 46 times while there's hundreds of the roles we've already defined 22:42:40
30 Jul 2022
@sandro:supersandro.deSandro 🐧 changed their display name from Sandro to Sandro 🐧.13:17:06
31 Jul 2022
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1 Aug 2022
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@fricklerhandwerk:matrix.orgfricklerhandwerkJust found that NixOS manual for some reason has a Nix language syntax summary: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-nix-syntax-summary That should, if at all, be in the Nix manual. Any objection to just removing it?11:15:23
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaeputting the best synthesis in one place sounds good13:16:26
2 Aug 2022
@starf0x7:matrix.orgjurracaprobably worth reusing, it's nice and concise 14:01:11
@fufexan:matrix.orgfufexan not sure if this is the proper place to ask, but would it make sense to list the recent Nix 2.10 portability upgrade in the How Nix works page, under Portability? 14:33:14
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@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaeit is somewhat annoying that markdown is not a hierarchical format. we'll have to somehow forbid eg headings in option docs or the renderers might just produce garbage :/20:40:14
3 Aug 2022
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4 Aug 2022
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