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"at runtime" is not the same as "globally". i would love to install things locally at runtime, but the nix evaluator can't manage things that aren't packaged th

• huimang 1y ago
  Ah I misunderstood. Yes that's a bit more complex. Your options boil down to a) using pkgs.autoPatchelfHook [0], b) learning some nix and writing a derivation yourself, c) using nix-ld [1]. There's also pkgs.steam-run which provides a typical environment expected for games. A great deal of things are already packaged, but for the most part I find it pretty fast to package something. Once you write a derivation [2] or two, it's not that bad. I never packaged for other distros because they all seemed quite tedious, but the nixpkgs reference [3] lists most things and I can look at the source of similar packages in nixpkgs. It is a time commitment though to learn so it's understandable that it's not really appealing. [0]: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-patchtools https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-patchtools [1]: https://blog.thalheim.io/2022/12/31/nix-ld-a-clean-solution-for-issues-with-pre-compiled-executables-on-nixos/ https://blog.thalheim.io/2022/12/31/nix-ld-a-clean-solution-... [2]: https://ayats.org/blog/nix-tuto-2 https://ayats.org/blog/nix-tuto-2 [3]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/ https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/