• @MasseR
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    12 years ago

    I’ve been a nixos user for years, out of curiosity what was it you tried that was a PITA?

    • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      The package language has a bizarre syntax/semantic that is unlike pretty much every language I’ve touched. The reliance on directly linking to specific paths in the nix store meant that precompiled binaries that expect a standard path won’t work on Nix. There are tools to adjust those paths, but the package I was attempting to work with (Apache Directory Studio) wasn’t playing nice with them for whatever reason. I finally gave up and made a Flatpak.