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by eulenteufel 1418 days ago
I'll consider flakes usable for packaging software when they support passing options. The respective issue [0] has been closed unfortunately. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what flakes are meant to be (a more formalized standard way to define nix packages and apps), but a lot packages in nixpkgs have a plethora of parameters that as of now can not really be mapped to a functionality in nix flakes.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2861
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pxc 1418 days ago
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...

You can take a package from a flake input and call it with other args in your overlays, for example

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eulenteufel 1418 days ago
It's nice that there is a workaround, but passing build options is not something that should require a library. There should be a well documented standard way to do it.
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pxc 1418 days ago
Agreed. For most early adopters of flakes, flake-utils-plus is the de facto standard solution.

It would be good to see something like it built into Nix or Nixpkgs and blessed in the official docs, as the flakes feature approaches completion.

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phaer 1416 days ago
Flake-utils, flake-utils-plus, https://flake.parts/, https://github.com/divnix/std/ and others :D
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