I guess relentlessly dylibbed software like AppImage is the elephant in the room. Nix struggles to handle those types of programs, but they tend to work fine in Flatpak or with a special tool (eg. appimage-run or steam-run).
There’s an entirely mechanical workflow for calling patchelf when packaging a binary that was compiled dynamically against library paths outside of the Nix store.
There’s an entirely mechanical workflow for calling patchelf when packaging a binary that was compiled dynamically against library paths outside of the Nix store.