I agree it's annoying, though if you need dynamically linked stuff, there's always the FHS environments [1]. You can also do an FHS shell if you don't want to m

I agree it's annoying, though if you need dynamically linked stuff, there's always the FHS environments [1]. You can also do an FHS shell if you don't want to make a package. There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi/bigpemu/package.nix#L29 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi... [2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=programs.nix-ld.enable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=nix-ld https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...