Yann Büchau :python: on Nostr: :nixos: #nix weirdness? Why can one point nixpkgs to an *online* tarball with ...
#nix weirdness?
Why can one point nixpkgs to an *online* tarball with `-Inixpkgs=
https://....tar.gz` but the NIX_PATH environment variable only accepts *extracted* folders? 😩
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2024-07-04 11:53:22Event JSON
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