Sourcehut went a year with no update in nixpkgs, the packages did not
build for months, the module has issues at runtime, one of the
maintainers stopped using NixOS entirely and the other two don't respond
to issues.
Upstream has since also deprecated the Arch Linux and Debian
repositories to install Sourcehut. The only official way that remains is
Alpine Linux on x86_64-linux.
With networkmanager we can provide a much more welcoming network setup
experience in the installer and it costs us less than 10 MB with this
configuration on the minimal ISO.
By default, for new profiles it will enable DHCP and RA and allow
interactive reconfiguration through `nmtui` or `nmcli`. Especially the
TUI interface is very easy to pick up and removes the need for typing in
manual commands when setting up the WLAN connection.
It is unclear where this list originated, but it doesn't make sense to
ship it with all networkmanager installations. The most excessive plugin
is openconnect, that ships a 250 MB closure including webkitgtk.
Instead users now have to specify the plugins they want explicitly. I
updated the option to give hints on how to find them as best as I can.
There is no point in having a special option to enable strongswan, when
we can just parse the intent from the plugin list instead.
Also pick up relevant runtime dependency information from the plugin
package instead of providing additional options or hardcoding them.
Various issues were introduced in the latest update that required module
changes. This can be attributed to an apparent lack of attention for
which I apologize.
This is the easiest pick for new users to get their footing on NixOS.
NetworKManager allows managing a wide variety of different network
interface types interactively and with ease. It replaces `useDHCP` since
its default profiles for Ethernet and WLAN come with DHCP enabled by
default.
Wrapping programs is commonly done using `symlinkJoin`, which symlinks the man pages to the derivation that is actually installed. `-type f` by itself simply ignores such symlinks.
