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What's wrong with Nix in this situation? A Nix package's closure will come with its own new-enough glibc, right?

• amelius 4y ago
  Yes, but an external glibc puts extra constraints on the nvidia driver versions I can use. The driver I have now works fine.
  • pxc 4y ago
    I see how that's a problem. I know that GPU stuff is an area that requires some impurity on foreign Linux with Nix. I didn't realize that had implications for libc versions. :(
    • amelius 4y ago
      It wouldn't be a problem if it was easy to recompile the entire Nix system with a different glibc version.
      • pxc 4y ago
        To change glibc do you have to override the stdenv? Why is that hard? Do you have to make a new bootstrap or something awful like that?