| 4 Apr 2026 |
 webtier | That's good. What I'm imagining is that realistically, in the future we'd hit the nail on the head if basically something like that could be properly interpreted while at the same time allowing some other optional community app to use this same comment data to built a type of settings application. So like, as you configure your OS you keep making a more sophisticated "Settings" app... | 22:14:21 |
 K900 | I don't think that's something to be solved with comments tbh | 22:14:55 |
| webtier | I'm just brainstorming, want to note | 22:14:57 |
| K900 | I think the way to do that would be to provide better ways to introspect NixOS configurations in general | 22:15:10 |
| webtier | Yes that is true | 22:15:17 |
| K900 | But also there's incredible complexity there | 22:15:30 |
| K900 | That is really really hard to abstract over | 22:15:36 |
 Blastboom Strice | I thinl I know someone doing that with guix | 22:15:55 |
| K900 | https://github.com/oddlama/nixos-config-tui is one attempt I've seen that actually tries to follow the dependency chains | 22:15:59 |
| Blastboom Strice | * I thinl I know someone doing all this on guix | 22:16:12 |
| K900 | And that requires a custom build of the Nix interpreter | 22:16:21 |
| Blastboom Strice | * I think I know someone doing all this on guix | 22:18:04 |
| webtier | And looking at the current interpreter too... well maybe as a uni project | 22:20:29 |
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 mjm | lix is now in nixos-unstable, what's the best way to use it in a NixOS config? | 15:47:41 |
| K900 | nix.package = pkgs.lix | 15:47:54 |
| K900 | Probably | 15:47:58 |
| K900 | Or just keep using the module | 15:48:02 |
 puck | you can use nix.package = pkgs.lix; if you want; but using the overlay will guarantee more updates (tho less binary cache) | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | well, the module/overlay doesn't easily support using the one from nixpkgs | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | i do want more binary cache | 15:49:21 |
| mjm | yeah i guess i'll just do nix.package then | 15:50:43 |
 raitobezarius | to have binary cache and HEAD, we will probably need to track the channels and bolt a lix on there and rebuild with our own CI then push in our binary cache | 17:33:17 |
 Charles | What's lix using as its binary cache? Attic? | 17:34:36 |
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 @tc424:glasgow.social | Last I heard they were using garage as the back end, and think about attic | 17:39:11 |
