| 14 Jan 2025 |
 Niklas Korz | In reply to @niklaskorz:korz.dev
I'd also love stdenv.mkDerivation rec to be catched by a linter... especially because it still is used by the nix-init template | 10:47:15 |
 K900 | In reply to@l1npengtul:matrix.org
A binary application I'm dealing doesn't want to respect the HOME envvar. I'm assuming I have to make a FHS at this point. Why does it need HOME inside a derivation? | 10:47:32 |
 l1npengtul | It will only want to read its resources from $HOME/.local/share/program | 10:48:00 |
| Niklas Korz | that sounds like a job for a patch, and ideally an upstream PR | 10:48:13 |
| K900 | Then a fhsenv won't help you | 10:48:14 |
| K900 | You'll want some sort of custom wrapper with bwrap probably | 10:48:31 |
| K900 | But also that's insane | 10:48:35 |
| K900 | And the application should be fixed | 10:48:38 |
| Niklas Korz | would you mind sharing what application this is about? | 10:49:05 |
| l1npengtul | Proprietary applications, amirite /s | 10:49:17 |
| Niklas Korz | oh, well | 10:49:25 |
| l1npengtul | Its an proprietary JUCE audio plugin from AudioThing | 10:49:35 |
| Niklas Korz | in that case you could also make a wrapper that symlinks the resources into home on start | 10:49:41 |
| Niklas Korz | and then starts the application itself | 10:49:51 |
| l1npengtul | That could work too | 10:49:51 |
| l1npengtul | I'll try that | 10:50:02 |
| Niklas Korz | good luck :D | 10:51:17 |
| Niklas Korz | also | 10:51:50 |
| l1npengtul | Thanks, although this is probably not the craziest thing I had to do to get a JUCE plugin running properly :p | 10:51:53 |
| Niklas Korz | does it by chance respect xdg data dirs | 10:51:55 |
| Niklas Korz | I doubt it does but might be worth a try | 10:52:01 |
| l1npengtul | I see when I strings the binary, but I tried changing the envvar manually within a distrobox and it didn't seem to do anything, but worth a shot | 10:52:52 |
| Niklas Korz | or XDG_DATA_HOME | 10:53:03 |
| Niklas Korz | but only if it does not try to write anything in there | 10:53:12 |
| l1npengtul | (for context, to get MIDI working properly in JUCE I had to patch JUCE itself with substituteInPlace) | 10:53:55 |
 toonn | NiklasKorz: The finalAttrs package is not without its problems. I'd really rather people stop complaining about rec unless the need to replace it shows up TBH. | 10:54:04 |
| toonn | *pattern, not package | 10:54:11 |
| l1npengtul | oh it definately does :p | 10:54:29 |
| l1npengtul | ill just symlink | 10:54:33 |
| Niklas Korz | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
NiklasKorz: The finalAttrs package is not without its problems. I'd really rather people stop complaining about rec unless the need to replace it shows up TBH. rec packages are hard to overrideAttrs, so I wonder what problem that finalAttrs pattern has? | 10:55:34 |
