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> I agree that Nix is hard to deal with when it comes to binary distributions of any kind, which includes CUDA. That's really interesting to me. Why is a bina
by tome 9y ago
> I agree that Nix is hard to deal with when it comes to binary distributions of any kind, which includes CUDA.
That's really interesting to me. Why is a binary package not considered a source package where "compiling" it is a no-op?
- Filligree 9y agoIt's a problem of altering the embedded paths to point at the nix store. There are some tools for doing that -- patchelf, etc. -- but it's far more difficult to get all that right than to compile from source. A source package using autoconf will, in general, just work. A binary package always needs extra work.