Python + Qt woes

[jacg]

@jtojnar

Well, programs provided by package should ideally be self-contained (through the use of wrappers) so we might consider that a benefit that it brings insufficient hermeticity to light.

Actually, I totally agree with that. I guess it’s the brick wall that I’ve hit here that is making me have heretical thoughts.

@jtojnar

I would argue that what you are doing when playing with Python REPL is hacking away at some package so you really want nix develop .

Oh, I think it’s pretty clear that nix develop is the right tool for this sort of thing.

[Aside: I’m getting the impression that when I use direnv with use flake that the build phase is being executed, and also when I manually execute nix develop … unless it’s cached (this has arisen while a bazillion other questions were being raised, so I haven’t kept track of it very well). At first blush I would hope that neither nix develop nor direnv should build the package automatically.]

@jtojnar

You would need to create a shell function that accepts the same arguments as makeWrapper but modifies the environment instead. Then you could pass it "${qtWrapperArgs[@]}" in a shellHook and avoid exec ing bash.

Hrrmmmph … can you help me decipher "${qtWrapperArgs[@]}"? Maybe starting with the [@]: I have no idea what that is (bash? Nix? Druid Runes? APL? Brainfuck?), or where to start looking it up.