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@julesh Or even declare stuff they _can_ do as noncanonical (cf. "Pythonic").

I managed to get a new package into #nix #nixpkgs: silx (an HDF5 viewer). The review process was a pleasure as usual, once it got started. Now I get a notification about a merge request for a new version of silx, apparently auto-generated by a bot. What's more, after testing this new version, I can just tell the bot via a comment to merge it into master.

This is the only way a huge package repository can be somewhat sustainably developed. Bravo! Do other distributions have something similar?

#haskell's time library is extremely future and past-proof using unbound integers: "type Year = Integer". On second thought, maybe interesting for astronomists and geologists?

Does anyone know of a good way, on #linux, to "transfer" log files (written by some program that can't help itself but write to a hard-coded file location) to journald?

Just so this isn't misunderstood: I cannot change the program that generates the logs. I also cannot give it a different file name, or file descriptor.

@yoavlavi speaks volumes for the #nixos community here that I just saw this, wanted to answer, but already a few people made suggestions, after ~20min