gentoo
nixpkgs
gentoo | nixpkgs | |
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51 | 975 | |
1,992 | 15,753 | |
0.8% | 2.2% | |
10.0 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | about 17 hours ago | |
Shell | Nix | |
- | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gentoo
- Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
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Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode
Whilst Firefox may support hardware video decoding, Mesa since March 2022 disables patent encumbered codecs by default[1], and distributions such as Fedora and OpenSuse do not explicitly enable these patent encumbered codecs to avoid possible legal problems. Even Gentoo (built from source code by the user) requires the user to explicitly enable a USE flag (proprietary-codes) to use patent encumbered codecs.[2]
The thought process is that AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and the likes are not providing a patent license with their hardware.[3] They are instead just supplying part of an overall system that together with operating system kernel, display manager software, video player software, etc allows the decoding and encoding of patent encumbered video files. Open source software projects and distributions are concerned they'd be found to be infringing patents by enabling a complete solution out-of-the-box. Hence they put some hurdles in place so that a user has to go out of their way to separately piece together the various parts to form a complete system capable of encoding and decoding patent encumbered codecs.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/15...
[2] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/1265a159743d7f07185a...
[3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]...
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I like gentoo's package deprecation process
Thank you! I don't live in git and this helps! Normally under gentoo I shouldn't have to. This actual git https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (as opposed to the gentoo browser view) plus this "checkout the commit" should get me much further. ... And probably deserve some space in the gentoo docs.
- Great news java people: Gradle eclass is in the works!
- LLVM stages
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Is gentoo difficult to maintain as a daily driver?
You choose - here's a list
- Error 2124 when trying to interact with super-block (show-super, set-option)
- HTTP-Tiny: verify_SSL (Draft PR)
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My CNCF LFX Mentorship Spring 2023 Project at Kubescape
(pending) gentoo/gentoo #30595 sys-cluster/kubescape: new package, add 2.2.6
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Why do the desktop profiles add so many USE flags?
profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults:
nixpkgs
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Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
What are some alternatives?
gentooLTO - A Gentoo Portage configuration for building with -O3, Graphite, and LTO optimizations
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
torbrowser-overlay - Gentoo overlay for Tor Browser related ebuilds
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
cmake-init-conan-example - cmake-init generated executable project with Conan integration
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
cmake-init-vcpkg-example - cmake-init generated executable project with vcpkg integration
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
llvm-overlay - Unofficial experimental gentoo overlay for compiling llvm with additional components
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
cmake-init - The missing CMake project initializer
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.