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Nix Derivation Madness

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184 points birdculture | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.017s | 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. otabdeveloper4 ◴[31 Oct 25 20:25 UTC] No.45776319[source]▶
It's done that way on purpose. Precisely so you don't try to use the paths semantically. The names literally mean nothing in this context.
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2. eviks ◴[31 Oct 25 21:25 UTC] No.45776879[source]▶
That contradicts the simple fact that the name includes "ruby" and isn't just a hash
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3. otabdeveloper4 ◴[31 Oct 25 22:01 UTC] No.45777178[source]▶
That name is only there for debugging purposes. It doesn't actually mean anything and you only ever need to look at it to debug some hoary failing build.