| 9 Apr 2026 |
 lord_fomo | i'm brand new to this lix stuff as well | 00:10:08 |
| lord_fomo | i actually was likely as equally annoyed as you about the new builds getting out slowly but never commented on the forum 😂 | 00:10:45 |
 Neil Mayhew | I suppose it would be possible to create a small shim that wraps lix.dev and provides a nix-store.pc file that actually points to lix-store but that seems a bit icky | 00:10:57 |
| lord_fomo | good reason to try out (or at least know how) the alt backend | 00:11:06 |
| Neil Mayhew | TBH, I think the slow builds are a general problem with nixos-unstable and not related to nix-vs-lix | 00:12:19 |
| lord_fomo | yeah totes. but it gave us a reason to try out lix | 00:12:32 |
| lord_fomo | plus, honestly i like contrarian vibez anyway | 00:12:43 |
| Neil Mayhew | I'm kicking the tires at the moment but I like what I'm seeing | 00:12:50 |
| lord_fomo | hehe | 00:13:19 |
| lord_fomo | i been meaning to take a look for a while anyway | 00:13:36 |
| lord_fomo | usually there's gotta be an actual failure of something to get my butt in gear. | 00:13:56 |
| lord_fomo | i actually think it's a testament to the whole system that you can this easily swap out the entire backend so easily | 00:15:46 |
| Neil Mayhew | Yes, it's a clear sign of good design | 00:16:10 |
| Neil Mayhew | Could you point me to the discussion you saw on the NixOS server? There are a lot of rooms on there! 😄 | 00:16:49 |
| lord_fomo | ahh well it was just someone commenting you have to sometimes override / deal-with hardcoded things like you mentioned | 00:17:26 |
| lord_fomo | i think also the advance-change section here?
https://lix.systems/add-to-config/ | 00:17:49 |
| lord_fomo |
This approach is more robust, as it uses an overlay to rewire other tools that depend on Nix, ensuring consistency across your setup. Tools like colmena or nix-eval-jobs, which often hardcode a reference to Nix, will now use the version provided by Lix.
| 00:17:57 |
| lord_fomo | but i presume that's what already wasn't workin for ya? | 00:18:16 |
| Neil Mayhew | I've added that overlay, but I don't think there's a cachix or nix-store in lixPackageSets.stable. However, I'll check again. | 00:19:10 |
| Neil Mayhew | Unfortunately, it doesn't have either of those, but it does have a few other things I might add to my overlay | 00:22:03 |
| lord_fomo | ahh i see ur doin fancy haskell stuff | 00:22:19 |
| lord_fomo | yeah i haven't dug in enough yet to provide any other info 🫣
do report back with solns if you get them though 🙏 | 00:22:50 |
| Neil Mayhew | Yes, Haskell is my day job | 00:22:53 |
| lord_fomo | lucky | 00:22:57 |
| lord_fomo | i think everyone should have to learn at least a bit of that lang | 00:23:10 |
| lord_fomo | heh, i wonder what you'd think of coconut | 00:23:27 |
| lord_fomo | transpiler for python | 00:23:32 |
| Neil Mayhew | It reshapes your brain 😄 | 00:23:35 |
| lord_fomo | been meaning to embrace more | 00:23:37 |
| lord_fomo | imo you can more or less guess if a dev has used haskell before based on their code in any lang 😛 | 00:24:06 |
