[Ralith]

> Binaries are a pain, but that's always true if you aren't running the exact distro that the binary was built for.

This is actually easier to deal with on NixOS than elsewhere, because the tools for handling that case (patchelf, buildFHSUserEnv, supporting multiple versions of a lib, etc) are so well developed.

[microtonal]

Indeed, just two days ago I made a derivation for a large binary, which is built against an older Boost (1.58). On most other package managers, this would be painful, but with Nix I just made a derivation for that version of Boost by overriding Boost 1.59, which is in nixpkgs:

https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/f6da4d02686224b300...