Nixos compiles Firefox out of nowhere? - eviltoast

Basically the title. I have Nixos running on a server that runs completely headless and while playing around today, I noticed that the rebuild takes longer than expected and apparently that’s because firefox gets compiled.

Now, I don’t have any GUI installed, and even if I had, I don’t see a reason to compile FF from source.

My packages are just Jellyfin, Samba, Gitea, Nextcloud, virt-manager. None of these should depend on FF.

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deOP
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    8 months ago

    Well, that was easy.

    I had networkmanager enabled and apparently, that also pulls in a bunch of gnome packages. Why nix thought that suddenly FF needs to be built from source, is beyond me.

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Hmm, that shouldn’t be the case could you open an issue on that?