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Nix Derivation Madness

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184 points birdculture | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eviks ◴[31 Oct 25 16:21 UTC] No.45773806[source]▶
> nix/store/24v9wpp393ib1gllip7ic13aycbi704g-ruby-3.3.9.drv

A different type of madness, but are ugly names so common, why not start with ruby-3.3.9 so any list of files is semantically sorted/readable?

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1. singron ◴[31 Oct 25 17:17 UTC] No.45774382[source]▶
It really doesn't matter. As a normal user, you don't use `drv` files directly, and everything you configure yourself will use attribute paths in nixpkgs. E.g. `pkgs.ruby` or `pkgs.ruby_3_3`.