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> 1. Does every nix-shell require building the whole world from ground-up? Seems impractical to me. Agreed! Most repos with a shell.nix and heavy dependencies
by ParetoOptimal 4y ago
> 1. Does every nix-shell require building the whole world from ground-up? Seems impractical to me.
Agreed! Most repos with a shell.nix and heavy dependencies use their own binary cache with the service cachix.org (free for public repos).
> But, on MacOS, nixpkgs was not a pleasant experience at all.
Were there reasons besides the QMK nix shell building the world?
- ParetoOptimal 4y ago> Agreed! Most repos with a shell.nix and heavy dependencies use their own binary cache with the service cachix.org (free for public repos). Created an issue: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/issues/18248 https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/issues/18248