| 12 Sep 2023 |
 Alex S | In reply to @hive:the-apothecary.club
i'm not i think it would be awesome yeah it would be | 18:38:12 |
 John Ericson | rhelmot: hi | 18:56:02 |
| John Ericson | I feel like we might have talked about this before? | 18:56:09 |
| John Ericson | or maybe just similar conversations with others? | 18:56:15 |
| John Ericson | Have you talked to Alyssa Ross about this? | 18:56:22 |
 rhelmot | No, I don't recall having talked to you or alyssa about this at all. Alyssa has been around while I've been complaining about the in-progress stuff but there's been no intersection. | 18:57:54 |
| rhelmot | John Ericson: can I ask what you mean by not seeing any overlap? My understanding is that the userland is already part of nixpkgs, so a tarball of that could easily replace the impure bootstrap I did. | 19:09:00 |
| John Ericson | the packages you modified we can already cross compile | 19:09:37 |
| John Ericson | and the stuff in pkgs/os-specific/bsd/freebsd should replace most/all of pkgs/stdenv/freebsd | 19:09:57 |
| rhelmot | how does cross compiling help with the case that I'm trying to address, which is that I'm running nix on freebsd? | 19:11:41 |
| rhelmot | correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to use a binary substitute, you need to boot the same stdenv as the builder in order to get the hashes to match? | 19:12:23 |
| John Ericson | I mean there is no reason to modify those packages | 19:12:58 |
| John Ericson | if we can build them cross + pure, we can also build them native + pure | 19:13:19 |
| John Ericson | if you need to change a package, that is not because native, that is because impurities | 19:13:35 |
