most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
For in NixOS it is beneficial if both plasma5 and pam use the same Qt5
version. Because the plasma5 desktop may use a different version as the
default Qt5 version, we introduce plasma5Packages.
Fixes this warning at ibus-daemon startup:
(ibus-dconf:15691): dconf-WARNING **: 21:49:24.018: unable to open file '/etc/dconf/db/ibus': Failed to open file ?/etc/dconf/db/ibus?: open() failed: No such file or directory; expect degraded performance
Fixes this warning at ibus-daemon startup:
(ibus-dconf:15691): dconf-WARNING **: 21:49:24.018: unable to open file '/etc/dconf/db/ibus': Failed to open file ?/etc/dconf/db/ibus?: open() failed: No such file or directory; expect degraded performance
A centralized list for these renames is not good because:
- It breaks disabledModules for modules that have a rename defined
- Adding/removing renames for a module means having to find them in the
central file
- Merge conflicts due to multiple people editing the central file
ibus-qt has not seen a release in 5 years and is only relevant for Qt
4.x, which is becoming more and more rare. Using my current laptop as a
data point, ibus-qt is the only dependency left that drags in qt-4.8.7.
