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| “There are still many issues with the Darwin platform but most of it is quite usable.” — http://yves.gnu-darwin.org | 208 Servers |
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| 28 May 2021 | ||
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| toonn: did not rebuild any bootstrapTools so far, will try to do that next | 12:34:39 | |
| (and figure out how o_O) | 12:34:51 | |
| Oh, whoops. Don't know why I answered in Infra. | 12:36:03 | |
| yeah well I guess because I wrote there :p | 13:01:53 | |
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| planning to switch from homebrew to nix, is the amount of packages in nix-darwin high enough? | 17:56:56 | |
| Depends on what you need but generally yes. | 18:03:15 | |
| One of the few things I currently get from homebrew is mpv. The expression in Nixpkgs doesn't build with libmpv support. | 18:04:49 | |
| mtvare6: Nix has generally replaced homebrew for all of my ~CLI/library/dependency needs for a good while now. Once in a blue moon I run into something I want to try that is only in homebrew, but I have yet to really keep any of them. I still use brew cask for almost all of my desktop apps; I know some people shoehorn those into Nix, but I am not sure I really see value of swimming against the current on those | 20:56:12 | |
| 29 May 2021 | ||
nix-darwin lets you manage brew bundles for casks etc. now fwiw | 01:42:16 | |
In reply to @toonn:matrix.orgit also doesn't build with the non-deprecated Swift Cocoa backend :( | 01:42:39 | |
| have some WIP commits trying to get updated swift building but they're not ready for prime time yet | 01:42:59 | |
| Oh maybe I can use that for xquartz; I have yet to get the nixpkgs one to work | 06:43:07 | |
| I like how the Nixpkgs packaging policy is relaxed compared to Homebrew, especially with regards to GUI applications. For applications without official binaries, Nix is the only way I can install them without too much hassle. Notably Emacs. | 07:23:17 | |
| does anyone with an m1 has an idea on how I cant troubelshoot/fix this error with java?
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In reply to @emilazy:matrix.orgwhoa, is there a guide on this? | 07:42:55 | |
| there is the best guide of all - the source! https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/007d700e644ac588ad6668e6439950a5b6e2ff64/modules/homebrew.nix | 07:56:54 | |
| it looks like it's well-enough documented that you could just check the options reference though | 07:57:04 | |
In reply to @kloenk:petabyte.devI recently discovered that "openjdk" (8, 11, 16) is using x86_64-darwin binaries even on aarch64-darwin. The upstream (azul) does have aarch64-darwin binaries. See if https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/124576 helps? | 07:59:20 | |
| also, wow, I want to reply to give context but it eats a huge amount of space | 08:00:01 | |
In reply to @thefloweringash:matrix.orgIt’s actually the binary version downloaded from azul that chrashes | 08:00:38 | |
| oh, not from nix? | 08:01:05 | |
| yes, also tried 1 or 2 versions via nix. they crash as well | 08:01:30 | |
| siraben: the option descriptions along with examples are available in man configuration.nix | 08:02:01 | |
| but yeah, beyond that checking the source is best | 08:02:21 | |
| I see, thanks. | 08:02:29 | |