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Although the Mac version of the packages is far more likely to be broken or buggy in some way. Unfortunate, but an inevitable consequence of not many people usi
by Filligree 8y ago
Although the Mac version of the packages is far more likely to be broken or buggy in some way. Unfortunate, but an inevitable consequence of not many people using it.
- ris 8y agoBut also a consequence of having to float on top of non-free/uncontrollable base libraries. The only reason Nix works so well on Linux is because it can be in control of everything down to the kernel. For (presumably) this reason, nixpkgs will tend to only work well for one macos release at a time. There were also no pre-built binary packages for macos last I checked, so, having to build everything, if one dependency has a slightly flaky build procedure, it spells trouble.
- danieldk 8y agoThere were also no pre-built binary packages for macos last I checked There is a binary cache for macOS now. Hydra build status: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-18.09-darwin/darwin-tested#tabs-status https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-18.09-darwin/dar...