Re: Nixpkgs updates

Alyssa Ross
2026-02-09T19:41:46Z

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/9/26 03:02, Yureka wrote:
>> My systems attempted to build a spectrum image against nixpkgs master
>> last night, and failed because of pkgsMusl.netpbm and pkgsMusl.gdb,
>> which are known blockers since the GCC 15 updates:
>>
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20author%3Ayuyuyureka
>
> Can those be removed from the closure somehow?

I'm pretty sure I answered a very similar question last time, but just
in case: it would likely be more ongoing maintenance work to maintain
closure reducing overrides than it would be to fix the occasional build
failure of a dependency that is not strictly required, at least until we
have better tooling for identifying problematic Nixpkgs changes. In
addition, that larger amount of work would have less overall utility,
because package fixes benefit other Nixpkgs users, whereas adding to an
ever-expanding list of local overrides does not.

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