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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by soraminazuki on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:16PM (#42702295)
Even proper packaging is far easier compared to other package managers. Typical distros push users away from packaging their own software, so users end up relying on ad-hoc solutions instead. Nix instead makes packaging easier by having proper tools to abstract away the nitty gritty details.

For random binaries, autoPatchelfHook works miracles.

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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by 0x457 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:47PM (#42704991)
Every time I see a linux installation with a mess in /opt because it's faster than making a package, I get annoyed.
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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by postcert on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:08AM (#42707531)
It wasn’t that bad creating some new derivations my first week with Nixos, I was so used to Arch where I had maybe a handful modified pkgbuilds over a decade.

For better or worse it was a positive experience, especially when you usually already have a pkgbuild to go off of.

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