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What other approaches do folks use to deterministically customize Linux?

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[-] phaer@programming.dev 3 points 18 hours ago

I wish there were some automated tools where you could feed at the binary, or a directory of binaries, and it would just return all of the nix package names you should add include with nix-ld.

https://github.com/Lassulus/nix-autobahn and specifically its nix-autobahn-find-libs comes pretty close at least? Were you aware of that already and is there something missing?

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago

Indeed, I was unaware of this project. Project commit history looks inactive, but I'm guessing its feature-complete? Looks like someone has rewriten it with an added TUI:

[-] phaer@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

I'd say it's fairly feature complete, but not super polished - as so many 1 person projects. I still find it very useful, author is also still active in the community and pretty responsive :)

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