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and also only once you've invested the multiple weekends of migrating your whole setup and config to a completely new syntax/concept and invest the necessary time and brainpower to learn everything related.
That's not entirely true, unless you choose to nixify everything. You can just have a basic Nix configuration that installs whatever programs you need, then use stow (or whatever symlink manager you prefer) to manage the rest of your config.
You can't entirely forget that you're on NixOS because of FHS noncompliance but even then getting
nix-ldto work doesn't require a lot of effort.nix-ld has been really helpful. I wish there were some automated tools where you could feed at the binary, or a directory of binaries, and it would just return all of the nix package names you should add include with nix-ld.
Also if there were some additional flags to filter out redundant packages because of overlapping recursive dependencies or suggest a decent scope of meta package to start with for desktop environments, that'd be handy.
https://github.com/Lassulus/nix-autobahn and specifically its
nix-autobahn-find-libscomes pretty close at least? Were you aware of that already and is there something missing?Indeed, I was unaware of this project. Project commit history looks inactive, but I'm guessing its feature-complete? Looks like someone has rewriten it with an added TUI:
I'd say it's fairly feature complete, but not super polished - as so many 1 person projects. I still find it very useful, author is also still active in the community and pretty responsive :)