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Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? (Uğur Erdem Seyfi) (www.rugu.dev)
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[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (7 children)

For instance, I recently discovered the structuredExtraConfig option for patching the kernel straight up does not work. This means you cannot unset any kernel options

From reading, I thought this option was for adding options, not removing them. Sure, you might be able to set options to "no", but I don't think this will override the defaults...

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

You're supposed to be able to use lib.kernel.unset to unset them. In any case, that's just one problem. The main issue is the entire option is ignored because of a typo in nixpkgs.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Would you mind opening a PR to fix that typo? Would be useful for others as well!

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I'm planning to, I'm waiting for the kernel to finish building rn lol

EDIT: PR got merged BTW (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/431115).

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your work!
I would not have liked encountering this bug in the wild.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

K900 Commented 5 hours ago

Ooof.

lol

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Haha, perfect 😄

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