> wrapper script to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or custom derivation to patch their ld lib paths.
There is your problem, I don't want to spend time writing wrapper scripts, or researching how to craft my buildFHS for every little piece of software I will run once for an oddly specific purpose.
Running the proprietary VPN on Arch Linux was as simple as running debtap, and then installing the package via pacman, even though the package shipped by the vendor was made for Ubuntu. It even figured out the dependencies automatically.
It could probably be automated more. It's just that most NixOS users have low interest in automation .deb -> Nix conversion since it's not something you actually run into often as a NixOS user.
There is your problem, I don't want to spend time writing wrapper scripts, or researching how to craft my buildFHS for every little piece of software I will run once for an oddly specific purpose.
Running the proprietary VPN on Arch Linux was as simple as running debtap, and then installing the package via pacman, even though the package shipped by the vendor was made for Ubuntu. It even figured out the dependencies automatically.
I know I could do the same thing on NixOS, but it would be way more clunky and time consuming. For example: this is how a package is installed from a .deb using nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/pkgs/tools...
If Arch can do it in two commands, so should NixOS, just with two lines of nix :)