you were also involved in the earlier package attempts ;)
From: Aristid Breitkreuz [arist...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 2:49 AM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Deploying Steam in NixOS
Hi Sander
Hello Nixers seeking some entertainment!
I also did an attempt to make Steam working in NixOS. I have used a chroot
approach and for me it seems to work fine. I was capable of deploying and
running Half-Life, Half Life 2, Portal and Counter Strike and they all seem to
work fine on both on my
Very cool! Is this the approach you're suggesting we take with steam, and
abandon hope of doing it outside chroot?
On 13 Sep 2013 23:36, Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl
wrote:
Hello Nixers seeking some entertainment!
I also did an attempt to make Steam working in NixOS. I
Excerpts from Oliver Charles's message of Sat Sep 14 01:29:44 +0200 2013:
Very cool! Is this the approach you're suggesting we take with steam, and
abandon hope of doing it outside chroot?
What's wrong about a chroot?
Everything else could be a lot more work to maintain.
Additional use cases are
On 09/14/2013 12:35 AM, Marc Weber wrote:
Excerpts from Oliver Charles's message of Sat Sep 14 01:29:44 +0200 2013:
Very cool! Is this the approach you're suggesting we take with steam, and
abandon hope of doing it outside chroot?
What's wrong about a chroot?
Everything else could be a lot
Hi Sander,
This is really awesome. I had vague plans to eventually do the same things,
but I'm glad you beat me to the punch. :) This will surely also make
packaging other proprietary binary software much easier - for those cases
where patchelf is not enough. One thing that seems like it would be
