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by barkmadley 4181 days ago
I don't know much about the nix language, but it looks to me like the gpgme support is optional:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
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nextos 4180 days ago
The thing is easy to fix. The problem is that (i) most packages are far from minimal (ii) you loose pre-built binaries.
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barkmadley 4180 days ago
True enough. I wonder how much of the problem comes from trying to be compatible with software packages designed for other systems.
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