| 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 | 
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| 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 |
| viraptor | When building a package or in shell? In shell nix-shell -p stdenv should do the compiler and usual tools for you. | 23:39:57 |
| nasso | in shell (im using nix develop) | 23:56:36 |
| nasso | oooh smart | 23:56:50 |
| nasso | is there a way to do this by default? like do i just add pkgs.stdenv in depsBuildBuild in my mkShell?? would that work? am i starting to understand nix? | 23:58:00 |
| 20 Mar 2026 |
 Randy Eckenrode | Default shell should have the nixpkgs Clang. If something is hardcoding /usr/bin/clang, there’s not much you can do other than to patch it not to do that. | 03:03:33 |
| Randy Eckenrode | * Default mkShell should have the nixpkgs Clang. If something is hardcoding /usr/bin/clang, there’s not much you can do other than to patch it not to do that. | 03:03:47 |
| viraptor | Any chance I can nerd snipe someone to help with debugging a weird loader/linking issue in transmission? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/500850#issuecomment-4078394112
I ran out of ideas for what to try - I don't know where that extra required symbol comes from. | 03:54:08 |
 Alex Nicolaou | Have you tried asking codex or gemini? | 03:57:41 |
| viraptor | No, I assumed this one's too weird and out of their debugging range for now. | 04:01:33 |
| Alex Nicolaou | I can ask them if you want. | 04:02:52 |
| viraptor | It's running in the background now, just in case... | 04:15:54 |
| Alex Nicolaou | which one? I have them racing each other at the moment. | 04:17:10 |
| viraptor | Opus 4.6 ultrathink | 04:19:29 |
| Alex Nicolaou | ah so all three are competing. codex and gemini came up with similar plans ... we'll see how they do. I just approved them to try. | 04:22:12 |
| viraptor | I got a gnu/Darwin libiconv conflict and recommendation to override it explicitly for gettext. I guess I underestimated the thinking sand this time | 04:29:33 |
| viraptor | * I got a gnu/Darwin libiconv conflict and recommendation to override it explicitly for libpsl. I guess I underestimated the thinking sand this time | 04:37:41 |
| Alex Nicolaou | yes, but once that's fixed there is a follow on crash | 04:37:51 |
| Alex Nicolaou | some asset issue mumbo-jumbo that codex is workign on next. Gemini still doesn't have the initial issue done. | 04:38:33 |
| Alex Nicolaou | nix is god's gift to the AI, it does well with it. | 04:39:22 |
| viraptor | You can ignore the asset issues, that's one me and kind of the point of the PR. It will need some dev work. | 04:43:01 |
