Yesterday, I ran into an issue where two versions of Qt couldn’t run at the same time. This problem has been mentioned by a few people before, with no solutions offered for users. In my case, I was trying to start a nix shell with the rpi-imager. Thankfully, I was able to use the cli, but this was still unexpected and I was under the impression that nix was supposed to fix problems like this.
If these these applications can coexist in other distros, and they can only have one version of Qt, then that means packages in NixOS are overly strict about library versions. I don’t really care what the underlying reason is for this issue, I just know it’s an issue exclusive to NixOS that frustrates me.
Yesterday, I ran into an issue where two versions of Qt couldn’t run at the same time. This problem has been mentioned by a few people before, with no solutions offered for users. In my case, I was trying to start a nix shell with the rpi-imager. Thankfully, I was able to use the cli, but this was still unexpected and I was under the impression that nix was supposed to fix problems like this.
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Why is this only an issue on NixOS, then? I can’t find a single instance of this issue on another distro.
Here is the relevant github issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/37864
Because other distros usually can’t have multiple versions of the same library to begin with.
If these these applications can coexist in other distros, and they can only have one version of Qt, then that means packages in NixOS are overly strict about library versions. I don’t really care what the underlying reason is for this issue, I just know it’s an issue exclusive to NixOS that frustrates me.
No, the actual issue was an impurity (not working in Nix’ pure model). Impurity is a bug; it was fixed years ago.