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		nitsky on June 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NixOS 21.05 Nix is a great replacement for homebrew, but the lack of native support for Apple Silicon at the moment is a blocker for me.

Ericson2314 on June 2, 2021 [–]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/105026 this was recently merged so that should start rapidly improving.

lloeki on June 2, 2021 | [–]

The show's happening here now:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125184

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4867

There's also not-directly-related cross-functional need here on the install process:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4289

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