| 16 Mar 2026 |
 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 |
| 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 |
