Re:Making a PR to Nixpkgs
by Avamander on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:43AM
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> Lack of standard is a heavy issue and there are many ways of doing the same.
I'd partially blame the software as well. You can't standardise what doesn't want to follow standards. A lot of software or their developers work against the Nix model, some do so actively. The most visible example is the XDG-BD standard (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory), but there are a bunch of other things like that which make packaging difficult.
I'd partially blame the software as well. You can't standardise what doesn't want to follow standards. A lot of software or their developers work against the Nix model, some do so actively. The most visible example is the XDG-BD standard (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory), but there are a bunch of other things like that which make packaging difficult.