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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

1021 points · 583 comments · fjfaase

  1. bialyalibaba · · focus · HN ↗
    Nixpkgs should reduce package count. Waiting 2 days for unbound CVE patch merge is unbearable.
    1. bouk · · focus · HN ↗
      You don't have to wait? You just have to compile matter yourself
    2. pasc1878 · · focus · HN ↗
      They could improve that speed if they had more hardware to do the needed rebuilds.

      I hope you are paying them something.

    3. Diti · · focus · HN ↗
      Ask your favorite LLM to write an overlay for whichever package you need patches applied for before they hit Nixpkgs.
    4. amarshall · · focus · HN ↗
      Use nixos-unstable-small branch or backport the change and build yourself.
    5. shim__ · · focus · HN ↗
      There needs to be another repository with less stringent standards, nixpkgs should be for core libs and system applications
      1. Cyph0n · · focus · HN ↗
        That’s where flakes come in.

        Flakehub is one attempt at solving the discovery problem. For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flakehub.com&#x2F;flake&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;disko?view=usage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flakehub.com&#x2F;flake&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;disko?view=usage.

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