Re: The upcoming nixpkgs staging cycle

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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

> On 12/15/25 03:50, Yureka wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> I attempted running the spectrum release checks on nixpkgs staging 
>> commit dc05cdb0ced63fee5124d22a5cc43a0eab3a23bb.
>> 
>> I found the following build failures (all from the default 
>> glibc/non-cross package set) and reported them upstream:
>> 
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/470961
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/470962
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/470964
>
> Would it make sense to somehow remove those from Spectrum's dependency
> tree?  I don't think any of these are things that Spectrum actually
> needs.
>
> That might be a larger de-bloating effort, though.  There is no
> need to have NetworkManager when the kernel will eventually have IP
> networking support removed!

As we've discussed before, changing lots of package options to remove
dependencies will have a huge ongoing maintenance cost.  I would
therefore like to wait until we have better tooling for dealing with
Nixpkgs regressions before we start doing this.

(Yureka monitoring staging is a good step in this direction though!)

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