The kernel default for `link_power_management_policy` is `"max_performance"`.
This commit:
f169f60575
set the NixOS default to `"min_performance"`.
This issue (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11276) details my long
journey to discover this after several file system failures incorrectly
attributed to `TRIM` and `NCQ` settings.
I think we should use the kernel default of `"max_performance"` to assure
the best experience for new users with SSDs and to conform to the defaults of
the kernel and other distros.
The startkde patch was invalidated in the plasma-workspace-5.5.1
release. Quilt is now used to manage these large patches; it is much
simpler to use than Git.
The new GHC version contains a patch [1] that passes linker and compiler flags
to GCC via response files rather than directly on the command-line. This is
supposed to be beneficial on Windows and other platforms that have trouble
dealing with long argument lists. On NixOS, however, this feature breaks the
flag handling provided by gcc-wrapper [2] and therefore causes the entire GHC
build to fail.
This issue has been reported upstream at [3]. It's not clear yet how to remedy
this problem, but until we've figured that out we just don't pass compiler flags
in response files on NixOS to fix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10752.
[1] 296bc70b5f
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11762
[3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11147
The three KDE package sets now have circular dependencies between them,
so they can only be built if they are merged into a single package set
during evaluation.
The beta versions of KDE Applications 15.12 did not include a kdelibs
release, so that package was borrowed from KDE Applications 15.08. The
final release of KDE Applications 15.12.0 does include kdelibs, however.
