| 16 Mar 2026 |
 kaynetik | well in my case it is, unless I'm blind to it | 05:39:53 |
| kaynetik | K900: thanks for quick responses, I appreciate it 🫡 | 05:40:30 |
 emily | the bot comment shows the reasons it's not being merged | 05:42:11 |
| kaynetik | yep, seen it. So I guess I'd have to wait for either auto-merge, or for the existing maintainer to manually merge | 05:42:48 |
| emily | there is no auto-merge :) | 05:44:27 |
| kaynetik | any advice then, do I create a separate PR to first make myself a maintainer, and then rework the existing one to only touch the pkgs/by-name ? | 05:46:16 |
| emily | oh, I missed that khaneliman actually hit auto-merge | 05:47:35 |
| emily | it's not blocked because of Darwin, it's blocked because some of the jobs got skipped for some reason | 05:48:01 |
| emily | kicked CI, maybe that'll fix it | 05:48:18 |
| kaynetik | you the best! | 05:48:50 |
| kaynetik | thanks | 05:48:51 |
| kaynetik | btw what would be a good resource to read up on to properly introduce new packages for darwinians?
I'm tired of damn homebrew slop, and I'd like to migrate a few things that are still installed through it - akin to https://objective-see.org/tools.html | 05:50:14 |
| emily | I think just reading existing packages is the best way | 05:59:51 |
 samasaur | that and then just experience and asking questions. people here are very nice and helpful | 06:27:37 |
| kaynetik | Well, I've been on nix-darwin for two years, and it didn't even cross my mind that Matrix exists, let alone that people are welcoming and nice. 🥳 | 06:54:06 |
 nasso | In reply to @nasso:matrix.org
ok i decided to go with atahanyorganci/nix-casks and it looks like it works for the record i just switched to BatteredBunny's brew-nix because i had a hash mismatch with the other one when trying to install a cask (proton-mail-bridge)
works perfectly fine 👌 | 10:55:45 |
 ankarhem | Is it possible to use custom taps? | 11:40:01 |
| nasso | In reply to @ankarhem:matrix.internetfeno.men
Is it possible to use custom taps? no clue tbh sorry 😶 | 13:26:38 |
 Sarah Clark | Once you build your first few derivations, it becomes much easier | 20:30:48 |
| Sarah Clark | Since these packages have to be code signed to work, and we can't do that, the solution will be to download the dmg (inside your derivation) and copy the app to the right place. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/ta/tableplus/darwin.nix | 20:58:46 |
| 17 Mar 2026 |
 ragdoc | G'day. I see there's an open pull request https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin/pull/972 for Ollama. According to the comments, it seems like you guys are happy with it? If so, any idea when this might be merged into nix-darwin? There has not been any activity on the issue since November 2025. | 12:09:51 |
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| 18 Mar 2026 |
| kaynetik | This was a good pointer! Thanks a lot. | 07:02:19 |
| 19 Mar 2026 |
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 Spore | What's the experience of PaperWM.spoon like? I'm using aerospace right now but it feels too buggy and switching spaces is a bit unhandy | 14:49:25 |
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| viraptor | Hi, I'm just waiting for my ib/actool PRs to get some reviews but in the meantime, I was wondering if anyone has some packages that didn't get included because of the xcbuild-related compatibility issues. I've got a few fixes in the pipeline already (vkcube works most importantly 😂), but can look at anything else that's stuck and you'd find beneficial. | 16:00:10 |
| nasso | is there a way to "shadow" macOS' default dev tools at /usr/bin like clang, gcc, gm4 etc...?
when i run configure scripts, they try to run them when they run some checks, and i get spammed with this dialog (i DON'T want to install developer tools since im using nix-darwin for that.... right?) | 18:07:28 |
| nasso | 
Download image.png | 18:07:30 |
| nasso | the configure script wouldn't even fail if these files didn't exist. it would just fall back to something else. which i want! but macOS lies by pretending they exist when they actually just prompt the user for installation | 18:08:58 |
