Re: [Nix-dev] Ideas for systematically avoiding unwanted runtime dependencies

2015-08-26 Thread Tomasz Kontusz
On 08/27/2015 12:15 AM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Right now I'm struggling with my image pulling in gcc because it legitimately depends on icu4c, which mysteriously retains a runtime dependency on gcc. Regardless of specifics, individual packages can usually be fixed to reduce their runtime footpri

Re: [Nix-dev] Ideas for systematically avoiding unwanted runtime dependencies

2015-08-26 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Kosyrev Serge (2015-08-27 00:26:46) > Daniel Peebles writes: > > Regardless of specifics, individual packages can > > usually be fixed to reduce their runtime footprint, but I'm looking > > for ideas for how to do so in a systematic manner, so we don't just > > notice these things by accid

[Nix-dev] Python platforms

2015-08-26 Thread Bryce Moore
Hi Nix-dev, (Apologies if this has been discussed - I'm a brand new nix user.) I believe that many python packages in pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix have "linux" as the platform, where "unix" or "all" may be more appropriate. I noticed this with the "gevent" python package, as I was prevente

Re: [Nix-dev] Lost /boot partition (was: UEFI Grub is not running)

2015-08-26 Thread Anderson Torres
Well, it worked. I only needed to reinstall the system :) But it does a soft install, updating all files. 2015-08-19 22:09 GMT-03:00 Anderson Torres : > Oh boy! > I made a big mess and lost the /boot partition (while updating boot > flags)! Now I don't even know how to fix it, but at least I know

Re: [Nix-dev] Configuration requests

2015-08-26 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:53:26 -0700 Brian Jones wrote: > Coming from Gentoo, I understand about configurations. > > I'm trying out NixOS > for two main reasons: > > 1. Compile source for audio programs. > > At this point, I'm not really into downloading binaries. Also coming from Gentoo. If y

Re: [Nix-dev] Next release updates

2015-08-26 Thread Domen Kožar
Hi all, release-15.09 is now cut and hydra jobsets created, see http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-15.09 and http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-15.09-small Domen On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > Hi all, > > yesterday staging branch was merged into master

[Nix-dev] Ideas for systematically avoiding unwanted runtime dependencies

2015-08-26 Thread Daniel Peebles
Hi all, As I build more and more images with Nix, I'm becoming acutely aware of our awkwardly large runtime closures (often filled with irrelevant packages), and I'm wondering if people have ideas for how to avoid it. I've posted an issue[1] related to this in the past but figured I'd ask on the

[Nix-dev] NixCon 2015: Early Bird reminder and short status update

2015-08-26 Thread Rok Garbas
Hi, ++ | !Important! | | Early Bird tickets are only available until end of the August. | | That is in just 5 days. | |http://conf.

Re: [Nix-dev] Prague this saturday

2015-08-26 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Vladimír, thanks for your email. Unfortunatelly, I won't be in Prague on Saturday. I'll let you know when I'm in Prague. It would be great to meet. Tomas Vladimír Čunát writes: > Hi Nixers! > In case someone else would like to meet in Prague this Saturday, let me > know. > > Vladimir ___

[Nix-dev] Prague this saturday

2015-08-26 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi Nixers! In case someone else would like to meet in Prague this Saturday, let me know. Vladimir smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/n

[Nix-dev] Next release updates

2015-08-26 Thread Domen Kožar
Hi all, yesterday staging branch was merged into master. Changes in staging reduce size of the closures for typical NixOS usage. This means the last blocker for the release was removed: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A15.08+label%3Ablocker I'll branch o