That’s exactly what changed 😩 Do you read?

Have you even tested the new version? How do you know it’s not responsive?

What do you think this announcement want you to test?

New Ui announced, testers needed. What do you do? Complain about the old UI. Smart.

This is the documentation from git clone --help

--depth=<depth>

Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits. Implies --single-branch unless --no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly, also pass --shallow-submodules.

Isn’t that part of the problem described in the article? A shallow clone? Github has trouble with exactly that.

Maybe it’s time the community stepped in an provided alternative solutions to nixpkgs. We can talk about them here, but in the end somebody has to implement them.

I think you missed what I wrote in the brackets. It was regarding the gaming thing.

I do wonder how nix could solve the nixpkgs problem. In order to build it actually requires the recipes to calculate the hash with which it builds the store path.

Fixed output hashes could be part of the solution. A map of package and version to hash and outPath maybe? But for building from scratch e.g new packages, where would the recipes be stored? I think it would have to be in git, but where would that be stored? A monorepo again? Then we’d be back at nixpkgs.

I’m surprised they moved away from mailing lists. That took a lot of growth.

Do you need somebody to talk to, bro? Get some water into yourself, have a snack, sober up, and call a friend or family.

Oh shit, they aren’t the same? My bad. They both are filth, so I assumed they had the same owners. Same shit, different company I guess.

Probably have a list of reasons why they shouldn’t be in the community either. “They said master branch is OK: drama time!”

Too obscure, I imagine

Not enough people use it to be a target.

Does guix even use git? Are they still on cvs and mailing lists?

Use GoG. DRM free games. You can download the installer and distribute it for backups. Do anything you like.

Weren’t they just bought out by Saudis?

Dozens

nixpkgs as a mono repo might’ve been a mistake, honestly. shithub wasn’t made for monorepos. It doesn’t have a permissions system for it.

So many PRs get a bunch of inane comments that have nothing to do with the functionality to please somebody’s ego, the CODEOWNERS file is nearly worthless as “package maintainers” don’t even have the last say on their own packages, docs are nearly the last of the priorities making it difficult for pretty much anybody but the christened cream of the crop to make changes. It almost seems like the entire thing was made for “job security” - only a few people really understand what’s going on and thus make the decisions. That of course introduces a bottle-neck.

Even if more people wanted to contribute, they wouldn’t be aren’t able to. I think the decision makers like it that way.

I would check myself in if I started writing either, for sure.