Noam Raphael

Build of Nix fails with error: home directory '/homeless-shelter' exists

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**Describe the bug** When building Nix from a single-user installation, the build fails with the error: home directory '/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it to assure purity of builds without sandboxing...

Use envvars NIX_CACHE_HOME, NIX_CONFIG_HOME, NIX_DATA_HOME, NIX_STATE_HOME if defined

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# Motivation Currently Nix uses the XDG environment variables `XDG_{CACHE,CONFIG,DATA,STATE}_HOME` for locating files. I suggest to also look for environment variables `NIX_{CACHE,CONFIG,DATA,STATE}_HOME`, and if they exist, use them instead of...

A small things that you might consider: currently the README recommends using the external crate `once_cell`. Since Rust 1.80 we can use LazyLock from the std to get the same...

Chmod build root to make it read-only

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# Motivation Currently, building Nix itself fails in single-user installation - see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11295. This is because some build steps run something like `mkdir -p $HOME/.cache`, and since $HOME is `/homeless-shelter`...

The tutorial "Building conda packages with conda skeleton" is broken - `conda skeleton pypi click` fails

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### Checklist - [x] I added a descriptive title - [x] I searched open reports and couldn't find a duplicate ### What happened? Following the tutorial results in an error....

I couldn't install neonize. I digged, and it's because the current latest release, 0.3.12.post1, doesn't have a source distribution and only has MacOS wheels. See: https://pypi.org/project/neonize/0.3.12.post1/#files. I did `uv add...

Win11: Keyboard shortcuts don't work when keyboard is in Hebrew mode

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Hi, First, סחתיין on Katvan, it looks amazing! I just downloaded the latest 0.11.1-3254128-portable (on Windows 10.0.22631) release. I notices that keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl-S don't work when my...

Make the text in the "about" dialog copyable

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When sending my previous issue report, I had to manually write the version details. I suggest making the text in the "about" dialog copyable, it would have saved me a...

Fix SyntaxWarnings

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Fixes https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/321 Currently when running ponysay, you get this warning twice: ``` /nix/store/.../bin/ponysay/balloon.py:43: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '-' ``` It is caused by a docstring containing twice the phrase `\-directional`....