tracker looks in its directory tree for executable files
to make available as subcommands. Users expect to find subcommands
from tracker-miners package but that fails as they are in different
tree. We also cannot change the lookup path since tracker-miners
also depends on a library from tracker package.
Until we can break the dependency cycle on package level:
tracker -> tracker-miners -> tracker-sparql (tracker)
we need to work around it. I chose to set an environment
variable that overrides the subcommands lookup to a tree
symlinking files from both packages in GNOME NixOS module.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/-/issues/341
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/153378
most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
It was basically just a `environment.systemPackages` synonym,
only GNOME used it, and it was stretching the responsibilities
of the flatpak module too far.
It also makes it cleaner to avoid installing the program
using GNOME module’s `excludePackages` option.
Partially reverts: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/101516
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/110310
(It was requested by them.)
I left one case due to fetching from their personal repo:
pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/extra-elementary-contracts/default.nix
The upstream pipewire config is written in an almost, but not quite
JSON format. The parser accepts standard JSON, though, so we don't
need to write our file in the same nonstandard version.
The typing for all config options is changed from `types.attrs`, which
behaves poorly when the option is set from multiple locations, to the
formats.json-type.
Also, rewrite some very long one-liners for improved readability.
This release replaces the libpulseaudio shim with a pipewire module that acts as a fake pulseaudio server along with a systemd service that loads that module on demand.
This adds basically an indirection to systemPackages
to automatically install an interface for flatpak for their respective
environments. e.g if I enable pantheon and flatpak you'll get appcenter,
and on gnome you'll see gnome-software.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/99648#issuecomment-706691174
This splits PulseAudio and JACK emulation into separate outputs. Doing
so provides a number of benefits.
First it fixes pw-pulse and pw-jack. Prior to this they pointed to bogus
locations because the environment variables were not evaluated.
Technically fixing this only requires setting libpulse-path and
libjack-path to any absolute path not necessarily separate outputs but
it comes as a nice result.
Secondly it allows overriding libpulseaudio with pipewire.pulse in many
packages. This is possible because the new outputs have a more standard
layout.
This adds two tests. One is for whether the paths used by the module are
present, while the other is for testing functionality of PipeWire
itself. This is done with the recent addition of installed tests by
upstream.
This allows for transparent JACK and PulseAudio emulation. With this you
can essentially replace your entire audio framework with just PipeWire
for almost no configuration.
The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is not yet fully packaged in
nixpkgs and it has shown a very difficult task to complete, as
discussed in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94870. The
conclusion is that it is better to completely remove it.
* Update: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent/-/releases/0.8.0
* Fix the separation patch.
* Add `itstool` to ui (needed for building localized help).
* Use `pkg-config` instead of the `pkgconfig` alias.
* Fix some issues related to multiple outputs:
* Make the module pass specific output to `dbus.packages` since the `dbus` NixOS module will not generate configuration with correct interface paths otherwise.
* Change `malcontent-ui` package to primarily-a-program type derivation (`out`+`lib` instead of `bin`+`out`) since there are more and more `malcontent-control`-specific assets.
* This also fixes the issue where application data (desktop files, icons…) were installed to `out`, which is not installed by `environment.systemPackages`/`system-path.nix`’s `buildEnv` by default when `bin` output is also present.
* Make `malcontent` package install `out` output too so that `system-path.nix` links that too. It contains the AccountsService & Polkit data files.
* Split the library and PAM module out of `malcontent.out` so that they are not installed with the data files.
* This revealed a bug in the `gobject-introspection` setup hook.
