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@jchw

I understand the fear people have with forks, but I think we (as a group of Nix enthusiasts and fellow humans) should not fear them. Hard forks should not be done lightly, but that they can be done is a huge part of what makes free and open source software so powerful.

While I agree with forking nix and (probably) nix-darwin for governance reasons, I’m apprehensive about the proposed nixpkgs changes because I am doubtful Darwin support will survive.

I don’t think my concern is unfounded considering there was an RFC to demote Darwin to tier 3, which failed, and another call last year to revisit demoting it again.

If a core SIG can decide they aren’t interested in Darwin support, then that’s it? If they do decide to support it, but other SIGs don’t want to be bothered, then what? That’s why I asked about how project governance will work.