Jeff Huffman

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icon company Unemployed, make an offer! icon location Pennsylvania icon location Self-taught polymath of technical subjects across math, physics, and computers. More driven to understand things than to create, but I do some creating, too.

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Bypass store object reuse when FODs change source description

From what I've read of other discussions on the issue, I think this gets the best of both worlds, at the expense of more implementation work: - Changing fetchers while...

Bypass store object reuse when FODs change source description

Saying the DB "controls fetcher behavior" in this proposal is a bit of a strange way of putting it. It's controlling whether nix runs the FOD or not, not the...

Bypass store object reuse when FODs change source description

@Ericson2314 Your response seems to be based on the assumption that I want to be able to change the actual fetch result without changing the store path of the things...

Bypass store object reuse when FODs change source description

Hmm, ok, I think maybe I get it this time, at least partly. You're saying the existing CA derivation system can be used with relatively little change to accomplish what...

Have garbage collection leave store paths until they've been dead for a given amount of time

I was just thinking about this again, and I realized it's actually pretty simple to implement. I had been thinking in terms of tracking the "time since death" of *store...

Garbage left in input buffer on urxvt with transparent background color set

I can confirm that patch resolves the input buffer issue. I'm already using it as a local solution. Properly parsing urxvt's response is obviously ideal, but bad color detection is...