| 14 Jan 2025 |
 Gaétan Lepage | I know that Lucas Eduardo is pretty interested in this topic. | 10:45:47 |
 l1npengtul | Is there a way to symlink to the user's directory from a derivation? | 10:45:52 |
 K900 | In reply to@l1npengtul:matrix.org
Is there a way to symlink to the user's directory from a derivation? No | 10:46:32 |
| K900 | Why> | 10:46:36 |
 Niklas Korz | I'd also love stdenv.mkDerivation rec to be catched by a linter... | 10:46:37 |
| K900 | * Why? | 10:46:37 |
 @rnhmjoj:eurofusion.eu | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
A much nicer pattern IMO is `let inherit (set) value; in <body>`. for with lib;, but for with lib.maintainers it completely defeats the point | 10:46:42 |
| l1npengtul | 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. | 10:47:11 |
| 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 |
