Yeah, that part of the dotnet ecosystem is a mess. Actual build recipes would be the dream.

My favourite recent example was finding Avalonia.BuildServices, which is on nuget.org, but they don't even release the source for it. :|

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/16878

I don't know how relevant this is, but the thing that comes to mind is how we patch the dll imports in the source-built version of avalonia:

          substituteInPlace src/Avalonia.X11/ICELib.cs \
            --replace-fail '"libICE.so.6"' '"${lib.getLib libICE}/lib/libICE.so.6"'
          substituteInPlace src/Avalonia.X11/SMLib.cs \
            --replace-fail '"libSM.so.6"' '"${lib.getLib libSM}/lib/libSM.so.6"'
          substituteInPlace src/Avalonia.X11/XLib.cs \
            --replace-fail '"libX11.so.6"' '"${lib.getLib libX11}/lib/libX11.so.6"' \
            --replace-fail '"libXrandr.so.2"' '"${lib.getLib libXrandr}/lib/libXrandr.so.2"' \
            --replace-fail '"libXext.so.6"' '"${lib.getLib libXext}/lib/libXext.so.6"' \
            --replace-fail '"libXi.so.6"' '"${lib.getLib libXi}/lib/libXi.so.6"' \
            --replace-fail '"libXcursor.so.1"' '"${lib.getLib libXcursor}/lib/libXcursor.so.1"'

we nerf it in the source-build of avalonia:

      preConfigure = ''
        # closed source (telemetry?) https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/16878
        dotnet remove packages/Avalonia/Avalonia.csproj package Avalonia.BuildServices
      '';

but that needs work before other packages can use it.

it should just be build-time, in sandbox, but it's still shady

I think it's a nice idea on paper but has a lot of issues in practice.

Let's say libc for example (ofc nothing in .NET uses it but anyways), there are like 2 or 5 packages that provide that and maybe not all of them could work.

Or maybe openssl, that has 1.1.x and 3.0 versions, which one does the package want if they only specifcy openssl.so?

I don't think we'll be able to get rid of this anytime soon, just like Rust can't nor any other native lang really

needs something like:

    dotnetFlags = [ "-p:RuntimeFrameworkVersion={dotnetCorePackags.runtime_8_0}" ];

needs something like:

    dotnetFlags = [ "-p:RuntimeFrameworkVersion=${dotnetRuntime.version}" ];