Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Oh I wrote a blog post before on the usage of nix env and nix path and using a custom nixpkgs clone for reproducible nix env and configuration.nix. You may find it useful: http://matrix.ai/2017/03/13/intro-to-nix-channels-and-reproducible-nixos-environment/ On 26 Jun 2017 5:59 PM, "Klaas van Schelven"wrote: > Linux & Matt: thanks for these further insights. This has all been very > useful! > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Linus wrote: > >> On 24 June 2017 20:07:27 BST, Matt McHenry >> wrote: >> >The only major downside of this approach is that I have to always >> >remember to give '-I nixpkgs=...' arguments to all the usual nix >> >commands. But that's become pretty second nature to me by now. :) >> >> You could also set NIX_PATH in one of various locations to avoid having >> to specify it on every invocation. >> ___ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > > > -- > Klaas van Schelven > +31 6 811 599 10 > > ___ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Linux & Matt: thanks for these further insights. This has all been very useful! On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Linuswrote: > On 24 June 2017 20:07:27 BST, Matt McHenry wrote: > >The only major downside of this approach is that I have to always > >remember to give '-I nixpkgs=...' arguments to all the usual nix > >commands. But that's become pretty second nature to me by now. :) > > You could also set NIX_PATH in one of various locations to avoid having to > specify it on every invocation. > ___ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Klaas van Schelven +31 6 811 599 10 ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
On 24 June 2017 20:07:27 BST, Matt McHenrywrote: >The only major downside of this approach is that I have to always >remember to give '-I nixpkgs=...' arguments to all the usual nix >commands. But that's become pretty second nature to me by now. :) You could also set NIX_PATH in one of various locations to avoid having to specify it on every invocation. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
I had some of the same thoughts as Klass about nix-env vs. /etc/nixos/configuration.nix when I started using NixOS about a year ago. Since all the machines I run it on are single-user, I've found it simplest to never run nix-env, and just 'sudo emacs /etc/nixos/pkgs-configuration.nix && sudo nixos-rebuild switch' to install new packages. (I've modularized my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.) I keep /etc/nixos under git version control, so that I can move between versions of the machine config independently of versions of nixpkgs. This also has the benefit of making in very easy to keep configuration changes in sync between my different NixOS machines (they all push/pull to/from each other as remote repos). Rather than using nix-channel to manage my channels, I've instead just relied on a clone of the nixpkgs repo. If you do 'git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git', then 'git fetch --all' will pull down channels/nixos-unstable etc. branch pointers, and you can track them locally very easily. 'nixos-version --revision' will report the commit hash that your currently-running system was build from -- very handy for bisects etc. It's also part of the system derivation name. Having a local nixpkgs repo lowers the barrier to contributing fixes back into it, too. :) I also use the 'nox' tool to preview nixpkgs updates before applying them. Following is a short script that I wrote to handle it. It fetches the latest nixos-unstable, checks whether there's anything new in it, and if so, uses 'nixos-rebuild build' to build (but not swtich to) it. Then if that succeeds, it uses 'nox-update' to generate a summary report of the differences between the current system and the newly-built system. This lets me know what to keep an eye on WRT possible breakages. The only major downside of this approach is that I have to always remember to give '-I nixpkgs=...' arguments to all the usual nix commands. But that's become pretty second nature to me by now. :) #!/usr/bin/env bash set -o errexit set -o nounset git fetch --all current=$(nixos-version --revision); if git merge-base --is-ancestor channels/nixos-unstable $current; then echo "current version ($current) already contains latest nixos-unstable"; exit 0; fi; d=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M) wt=/home/matt/git/nixos/nixpkgs-update-$d git worktree add -b update-$d $wt $current pushd $wt git merge channels/nixos-unstable -m "Merge remote-tracking branch 'channels/nixos-unstable'"; nixos-rebuild build -I nixpkgs=$wt echo; echo "rebuild complete, computing changes"; echo; nox-update --quiet /run/current-system result | \ grep -v '\.drv : $' | \ sed 's|^ */nix/store/[a-z0-9]*-||' | \ sort -u > \ update-${d}.txt popd; mv $wt/update-$d.txt .; rm -rf $wt; git worktree prune; echo; echo "to review changes:"; echo; echo "less update-$d.txt"; echo; echo "to switch to new system:"; echo; echo "git merge --ff-only update-$d"; echo "sudo nixos-rebuild boot -I nixpkgs=$(pwd)"; echo; ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Hi Klaas, >> That intuition holds modulo your Q3 - replaying a sequence of >> nix-env commands would only reproduce the same generations if a) >> the states of all channels involved were retained (i.e. you'd need >> to know which nixpkgs-stable you installed from with each command) >> and b) all the builds were reproduce-able or cached. Nix assumes >> reproduce-able builds, and so retains the outcomes of building >> derivations based on a digest of the derivation itself - but if you >> replayed the same nix-env commands from scratch, you might get >> (trivially) different outcomes. > > Out of those 2 remarks "a" is the big one, especially if the channel > you've subscribed to is in fact not the stable one. As far as I > understand now, there is no solution for this (yet). Good to know > though. You can, instead of using nixpkgs/config.nix, write an expression for your user environment somewhat like this (say software.nix): let pkgs = import {}; in { inherit (pkgs) vim ripgrep ; } You can install this using: nix-env -f software.nix -i If you add the -r flag, the result will not depend on the previous generation of your user environment. The benefit of this approach is that you can replace pkgs in order to pin specific versions, for instance… let # System nixpkgs used only to fetch pinned nixpkgs bootPkgs = import {}; pkgs = import (bootPkgs.fetchFromGitHub { owner = "nixos"; repo = "nixpkgs"; rev = "d10fe641247e29b72139776cd316333b13ba"; sha256 = "06viplacb5w49yf3rirsn4jdcfssj98f3s1zic0l8raxng7pmdcq"; }) {}; in { inherit (pkgs) vim ripgrep; }; Which is a bit harder to maintain but should be much less stateful, depending only on fetchFromGitHub from your current nixpkgs not breaking compatibility and on github staying up — and importantly, it would allow reproducing previous generations more easily. You could of course also factor the fetching out into a separate file which you could import and have a script to automatically update. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had already done that somewhere. In a similar vein of functionality, you could version your user environment in a git repo with nixpkgs as a submodule and update it explicitly. This would provide a similar experience and further reduce the variability. > The rollbacks will be as-built, so implicitly they capture the state > implied by the channels and configuration.nix. However, there's no > explicit capture of those - there was discussion relatively recently > about capturing configuration.nix into the generation, but it turns > out to be a little harder than you'd expect. Likewise, you'd have to > somehow capture the state of all the involved channels. > > > Do you have a pointer to this discussion? I cannot find it using the > keywords you mentioned above. This was the discussion David Izquierdo linked in his reply: https://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023403.html Linus ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Judson, Thanks for your answers! I've documented where your answers led me below for myself and others below. > Second, your questions seem like prime additions to > https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki/Documentation-Gaps which I hope > will inform future version of the Nix manuals. > > Maybe... the biggest missing "thing" in the documentation that I've encountered so far is not any particular gap, but rather the organization of the material. I have not yet reached the level where I can reorganize all of the documentation myself though, nor do I have the time for it :-) > I'll do my best to share my understanding vis-a-vis your questions, but > they highlight weaknesses in my own understanding as well. > > > [..] >> 1. In NixOs /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is the single configuration file >> that determines the state of the system as a whole. How does this file >> relate to the existence of the nix-env command, either executed as root or >> by a single non-privileged user? In particular, I would assume that any >> nix-env is undone by the time the system is rebuilt from the configuration >> file. Assuming this is the case: should the usage of nix-env not be >> actively discouraged in NixOs? (perhaps it is, and I simply did not find >> the reference) >> >> The products of runinng nix-env --install live in profiles (as, in fact, > do nixos-rebuilds) - there's a diagram here http://nixos.org/nix/ > manual/#sec-profiles that I found useful for understanding how profiles > work. Specificially, every user has their own "~/.nix-profiles" directory, > and the system as a whole has a collection of profiles. System and user > profiles are blended, using Unix pathing mechanisms. If, for example, you > check your PATH, you'll see references to /home/username/.nix-profile/bin > and /run/current-system/sw/bin. > Yes, the diagram is very useful! One thing that's missing from the diagram (and my understanding until an hour ago) is that the PATH value is in practice not a single value, but rather a list (as is usual for paths, but I didn't necessarily assume that Nix would do the usual thing). This gives rise to the "blending" that you mention above, so that a non-privileged user has access to their own env, the root's env, and the "system" env (AFAIU, the env that's generated from the configuration.nix). To answer my own question: root's nix-env and the configuration.nix are independent from each other and their blended results will be available to all users. This means that running nixos-rebuild after some imperative style nix-env commands will in fact *not *undo those nix-env commands. Your remark that ~ > > nix-env --install is incredibly convenient to quickly install a program > you need in the moment. Even better is when the "not installed" warning are > working properly (which relies on your channel etc) and you can copy and > paste a nix-env command to get the tool you need _right then_, and take a > little maintenance time later to "purify" things. > > I've found it useful from time to time to do a nix-env -q, and migrate the > list of installed packages to nix configuration.nix, and then delete my > local installs along the way. I sort of wish that there were a mechanical > way to do this, but it'd involve editing configuration.nix automatically > and triggering nixos-rebuild, which I'm loath to undertake myself. > > Admittedly, there is some potential for confusion involved when you've > nix-env'd a package, since you e.g. won't see it update when nixos-build is > run. Also beware interactions like dmenu or neovim installed in one place > and programs or plugins installed in another. > > This is a good tip on an actually practical workflow! > 2. (Context: Assuming for a moment there _is_ in fact a use-case for >> nix-env; e.g. the scenario where you're not running NixOs, but are using >> Nix on top of another distribution). nix-env uses an "imperative style" of >> manipulating your environment, i.e. using a sequence of commands in a >> particular order. I understand that after each succesful manipulation the >> _resulting_ environment becomes available as a separate generation. As far >> as I understand there's even a "half-product", the so called "derivation" >> that is available per generation, although I did not study those yet. My >> question is, however, whether the original commands that led to these >> constructions can somehow be retrieved. The reason for this question is the >> observation that the sequence of nix-env (and potentially other similar) >> commands can be seen as a transactional log that could simply be replayed >> to reconstruct the resulting generations (assuming that the commands fully >> express the information needed to construct the associated environments; >> this assumption might not actually hold in practice. Question 2b: does the >> assumption hold?). >> > > That intuition holds modulo your Q3 - replaying a sequence of nix-env > commands would only reproduce the
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
David, Thanks for your reply; answering below with a few more findings based on your pointers in the hope that this might be relevant for future readers (including myself) 3. In the scenario where I use the single configuration file >> /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but I'm also subscribed to a channel, the >> state of this channel may influence the outcome of nixos-rebuild (This is >> by design, it allows us to stay up to date with e.g. security updates). >> The >> consecutive states of the channel, as seen by my system when rebuilding, >> are valuable pieces of information in their own right when I want to debug >> a problem. Take the following example: >> >> t=0, my system is good. >> t=1, I want to install some extra package, I modify configuration.nix, and >> run nixos-rebuild >> t=2, system broken. >> >> I understand that I always have the ability to roll back the system _as a >> whole_, even using Grub if needed. This is awesome of course. The question >> is: do I also have the ability to debug the parts that lead to that whole? >> In particular: the precise state of the channel[s] on each rebuild? And >> preferably also: the state of /etc/nixos/configuration.nix on each build? >> > > I think you want `nix-channel --rollback`, and > `system.copySystemConfiguration = true` (for c.nix). Note however that at > some point it will probably be in your best interest to modularise your > c.nix into several files, and that option only copies c.nix, not any > imports. You can check this message for a fairly elegant method to have > your /etc/nixos tree be a part of each generation. > > https://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023403.html > >> >> >> Thanks for the pointer to `nix-channel --rollback`; it's indeed the kind of thing I was thinking about, although it seems the various "seen states" of the channel have not fully been exposed in all tooling. E.g. it's possible to roll back to a particular generation of the channel, but it's not possible to list all generations using the tooling (AFAICS); However, at least we can inspect the directory layout and proceed from there. system.copySystemConfiguration is the kind of thing I was talking about, although it's indeed quite useless given it breaks under modularisation of the config. The discussion about "source closures" in this pull request is also interesting: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/709 (found by repairing a link in the discussion you mentioned). For now, I think I'll just implement this by putting the sources in a more conventional version control system. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Klaas, First, welcome to Nix! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I've been. Second, your questions seem like prime additions to https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki/Documentation-Gaps which I hope will inform future version of the Nix manuals. I'll do my best to share my understanding vis-a-vis your questions, but they highlight weaknesses in my own understanding as well. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:41 AM Klaas van Schelvenwrote: > Hello Nixians, > > I've installed NixOs a number of days ago. So far I really like it! > > I've read the documentation I could find, but I'm left with a number of > questions; not so much "how to do X" but rather of a slightly more > philosphofical (or cultural, a.k.a. "best practices") nature. I hope > someone can enlighten me on the "Nix Way". > > 1. In NixOs /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is the single configuration file > that determines the state of the system as a whole. How does this file > relate to the existence of the nix-env command, either executed as root or > by a single non-privileged user? In particular, I would assume that any > nix-env is undone by the time the system is rebuilt from the configuration > file. Assuming this is the case: should the usage of nix-env not be > actively discouraged in NixOs? (perhaps it is, and I simply did not find > the reference) > > The products of runinng nix-env --install live in profiles (as, in fact, do nixos-rebuilds) - there's a diagram here http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-profiles that I found useful for understanding how profiles work. Specificially, every user has their own "~/.nix-profiles" directory, and the system as a whole has a collection of profiles. System and user profiles are blended, using Unix pathing mechanisms. If, for example, you check your PATH, you'll see references to /home/username/.nix-profile/bin and /run/current-system/sw/bin. nix-env --install is incredibly convenient to quickly install a program you need in the moment. Even better is when the "not installed" warning are working properly (which relies on your channel etc) and you can copy and paste a nix-env command to get the tool you need _right then_, and take a little maintenance time later to "purify" things. I've found it useful from time to time to do a nix-env -q, and migrate the list of installed packages to nix configuration.nix, and then delete my local installs along the way. I sort of wish that there were a mechanical way to do this, but it'd involve editing configuration.nix automatically and triggering nixos-rebuild, which I'm loath to undertake myself. Admittedly, there is some potential for confusion involved when you've nix-env'd a package, since you e.g. won't see it update when nixos-build is run. Also beware interactions like dmenu or neovim installed in one place and programs or plugins installed in another. 2. (Context: Assuming for a moment there _is_ in fact a use-case for > nix-env; e.g. the scenario where you're not running NixOs, but are using > Nix on top of another distribution). nix-env uses an "imperative style" of > manipulating your environment, i.e. using a sequence of commands in a > particular order. I understand that after each succesful manipulation the > _resulting_ environment becomes available as a separate generation. As far > as I understand there's even a "half-product", the so called "derivation" > that is available per generation, although I did not study those yet. My > question is, however, whether the original commands that led to these > constructions can somehow be retrieved. The reason for this question is the > observation that the sequence of nix-env (and potentially other similar) > commands can be seen as a transactional log that could simply be replayed > to reconstruct the resulting generations (assuming that the commands fully > express the information needed to construct the associated environments; > this assumption might not actually hold in practice. Question 2b: does the > assumption hold?). > That intuition holds modulo your Q3 - replaying a sequence of nix-env commands would only reproduce the same generations if a) the states of all channels involved were retained (i.e. you'd need to know which nixpkgs-stable you installed from with each command) and b) all the builds were reproduce-able or cached. Nix assumes reproduce-able builds, and so retains the outcomes of building derivations based on a digest of the derivation itself - but if you replayed the same nix-env commands from scratch, you might get (trivially) different outcomes. > > 3. In the scenario where I use the single configuration file > /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but I'm also subscribed to a channel, the > state of this channel may influence the outcome of nixos-rebuild (This is > by design, it allows us to stay up to date with e.g. security updates). The > consecutive states of the channel, as seen by my system when rebuilding, > are valuable pieces of information in their own
Re: [Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
I'll try to answer what I think I know... On 22/06/17 20:40, Klaas van Schelven wrote: Hello Nixians, I've installed NixOs a number of days ago. So far I really like it! I've read the documentation I could find, but I'm left with a number of questions; not so much "how to do X" but rather of a slightly more philosphofical (or cultural, a.k.a. "best practices") nature. I hope someone can enlighten me on the "Nix Way". 1. In NixOs /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is the single configuration file that determines the state of the system as a whole. How does this file relate to the existence of the nix-env command, either executed as root or by a single non-privileged user? In particular, I would assume that any nix-env is undone by the time the system is rebuilt from the configuration file. Assuming this is the case: should the usage of nix-env not be actively discouraged in NixOs? (perhaps it is, and I simply did not find the reference) They're mostly independent, but AFAIK nix-env binaries have priority over conf.nix. Nothing gets undone, since whatever you install to your user profile stays in the nix store (because your user profile is a gc root). For me, the use of n-e is because it's faster to test or use oneshot software installing it imperatively than adding-then-removing to conf.nix. I guess `nix-shell -p` would be more "correct", but it's a matter of not forgetting you've used it. 2. (Context: Assuming for a moment there _is_ in fact a use-case for nix-env; e.g. the scenario where you're not running NixOs, but are using Nix on top of another distribution). nix-env uses an "imperative style" of manipulating your environment, i.e. using a sequence of commands in a particular order. I understand that after each succesful manipulation the _resulting_ environment becomes available as a separate generation. As far as I understand there's even a "half-product", the so called "derivation" that is available per generation, although I did not study those yet. My question is, however, whether the original commands that led to these constructions can somehow be retrieved. The reason for this question is the observation that the sequence of nix-env (and potentially other similar) commands can be seen as a transactional log that could simply be replayed to reconstruct the resulting generations (assuming that the commands fully express the information needed to construct the associated environments; this assumption might not actually hold in practice. Question 2b: does the assumption hold?). 3. In the scenario where I use the single configuration file /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but I'm also subscribed to a channel, the state of this channel may influence the outcome of nixos-rebuild (This is by design, it allows us to stay up to date with e.g. security updates). The consecutive states of the channel, as seen by my system when rebuilding, are valuable pieces of information in their own right when I want to debug a problem. Take the following example: t=0, my system is good. t=1, I want to install some extra package, I modify configuration.nix, and run nixos-rebuild t=2, system broken. I understand that I always have the ability to roll back the system _as a whole_, even using Grub if needed. This is awesome of course. The question is: do I also have the ability to debug the parts that lead to that whole? In particular: the precise state of the channel[s] on each rebuild? And preferably also: the state of /etc/nixos/configuration.nix on each build? I think you want `nix-channel --rollback`, and `system.copySystemConfiguration = true` (for c.nix). Note however that at some point it will probably be in your best interest to modularise your c.nix into several files, and that option only copies c.nix, not any imports. You can check this message for a fairly elegant method to have your /etc/nixos tree be a part of each generation. https://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023403.html 4. Is a "single declarative file per user" (e.g. for dotfiles, but potentially also to make it possible to declare which user-specific packages are installed) available? I understand there some options exist, but how do they relate? Is there convergence on a "one way to do it"? 5. In the commit linked below, the nix file for VTE 2.91 adds the following 2 propagatedBuildInputs: pcre2 & gnutls. As far as I understand this might be not good practice. The reason I've added them is because pkg-config, when run in the build context of xfce.terminal, cannot otherwise find the package vte-2.91 because of a dependency error. Ignoring for a moment the rationale of the commit itself (I've been convinced that adding this particular version of xfce4-terminal to the repo by itself is not a good idea) can someone tell me what the proper way to handle this particular situation would be?
[Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions
Hello Nixians, I've installed NixOs a number of days ago. So far I really like it! I've read the documentation I could find, but I'm left with a number of questions; not so much "how to do X" but rather of a slightly more philosphofical (or cultural, a.k.a. "best practices") nature. I hope someone can enlighten me on the "Nix Way". 1. In NixOs /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is the single configuration file that determines the state of the system as a whole. How does this file relate to the existence of the nix-env command, either executed as root or by a single non-privileged user? In particular, I would assume that any nix-env is undone by the time the system is rebuilt from the configuration file. Assuming this is the case: should the usage of nix-env not be actively discouraged in NixOs? (perhaps it is, and I simply did not find the reference) 2. (Context: Assuming for a moment there _is_ in fact a use-case for nix-env; e.g. the scenario where you're not running NixOs, but are using Nix on top of another distribution). nix-env uses an "imperative style" of manipulating your environment, i.e. using a sequence of commands in a particular order. I understand that after each succesful manipulation the _resulting_ environment becomes available as a separate generation. As far as I understand there's even a "half-product", the so called "derivation" that is available per generation, although I did not study those yet. My question is, however, whether the original commands that led to these constructions can somehow be retrieved. The reason for this question is the observation that the sequence of nix-env (and potentially other similar) commands can be seen as a transactional log that could simply be replayed to reconstruct the resulting generations (assuming that the commands fully express the information needed to construct the associated environments; this assumption might not actually hold in practice. Question 2b: does the assumption hold?). 3. In the scenario where I use the single configuration file /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but I'm also subscribed to a channel, the state of this channel may influence the outcome of nixos-rebuild (This is by design, it allows us to stay up to date with e.g. security updates). The consecutive states of the channel, as seen by my system when rebuilding, are valuable pieces of information in their own right when I want to debug a problem. Take the following example: t=0, my system is good. t=1, I want to install some extra package, I modify configuration.nix, and run nixos-rebuild t=2, system broken. I understand that I always have the ability to roll back the system _as a whole_, even using Grub if needed. This is awesome of course. The question is: do I also have the ability to debug the parts that lead to that whole? In particular: the precise state of the channel[s] on each rebuild? And preferably also: the state of /etc/nixos/configuration.nix on each build? 4. Is a "single declarative file per user" (e.g. for dotfiles, but potentially also to make it possible to declare which user-specific packages are installed) available? I understand there some options exist, but how do they relate? Is there convergence on a "one way to do it"? 5. In the commit linked below, the nix file for VTE 2.91 adds the following 2 propagatedBuildInputs: pcre2 & gnutls. As far as I understand this might be not good practice. The reason I've added them is because pkg-config, when run in the build context of xfce.terminal, cannot otherwise find the package vte-2.91 because of a dependency error. Ignoring for a moment the rationale of the commit itself (I've been convinced that adding this particular version of xfce4-terminal to the repo by itself is not a good idea) can someone tell me what the proper way to handle this particular situation would be? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/26742/commits/5e566d3c8a078f6cd6304e7cf0b409a8260ee71c#diff-52903c4477fc53869e7e92148494cbe5R17 Hope this isn't too overwhelming a wall of text - feel free to answer only partly if you see fit. Thanks in advance, Klaas -- Klaas van Schelven +31 6 811 599 10 ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev