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[summary]: #summary
Manage the environment of wrappers declaratively and deprecate shell based
methods for calculating runtime environment of packages.
methods for calculating runtime environment of packages. Make wrappers a
separate derivation so that mere changes to the environment will not trigger a
rebuild. Make it easier to debug why env vars are added to an executable, by
using Nix as the language to evaluate what env vars are needed, instead of not
documented good enough and not easily debug-able shell hooks.
# Motivation
[motivation]: #motivation
- Make wrappers a separate derivation to make mere changes to the environment
not trigger a heavy rebuild.
- Make it easier to debug why env vars are added to an executable, by using Nix
as the language to evaluate what env vars are needed, instead of not
documented good enough and not easily debug-able shell hooks.
We have numerous issues regarding wrappers and our wrapper shell hooks. Here's
a list of them, sorted by categories.
a list of them, sorted to categories.
## Closure related