[Ericson2314]

> You're right but just to explain where I came from there were a lot of "just use this default.nix" that had arguments and could not "just be used".

> I understood that an argument was needed, that error was clear and when I googled it I found the solution that I wrote.

So in this case the advise was worst than useless? Had you been figuring things out on your own, would it have been less bad?

> It's just as much apple's fault though - if xcode has some open command line tools I'm sure there would have been ready-made formulas for everything we needed.

Yes that is too true. Keeping things working with apple is so draining it's hard to have energy left over to do other things right.