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Nixos compiles Firefox out of nowhere? (feddit.de)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a project nix-tree that lets you see the dependency trees of Nixos.

Try that, (or post the output here). To see if firefox is referenced somewhere in the packages you're using

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Does firefox appear in your previous closure? nix-store --query --tree /run/current-system/ | grep firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I solved it using nix-tree, see the other comment.