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fix(pkgs): one chromium, not two — and what that is actually worth
BACKLOG #121. nixpkgs' chromium wrapper with enableWideVine = true (what the
template ships, for DRM) runs the `-wv` copy but links its share/* from the
PLAIN unwrapped build. A symlink is a store reference, so a second 687 MiB
chromium rode along for a directory of .desktop files nothing executes.
overlays.default now points those symlinks at the copy we already run; the
template needs no change, since lib.nix, the repo pkgs and nixosModules all
apply the overlay.

Checked first, because it decided whether the item was possible at all:
whether the `-wv` copy references the plain build. It is `cp -a` of it, so it
plausibly would have — and then no wrapper change could have dropped the
duplicate. It does not. Also verified rather than assumed: `.override
{ enableWideVine = true; }` composes with the overlay's overrideAttrs (the
order usually matters), so the template's existing line picks the fix up
untouched; the wrapper still execs the -wv build with WidevineCdm present; and
share/{applications,icons,man} match stock with the .desktop byte-identical.

I claimed this was "687 MiB off every install". It is not, and measuring the
artifact instead of the closure is what corrected it:

    nominal closure          -687 MiB  (9.38 -> 8.71 GiB)
    ISO image                -8 KiB    of 8.078 GiB
    installed disk           ~-19 MiB
    cache-install download   -195 MiB

Two dedupes that closure arithmetic cannot see. mksquashfs detects duplicate
files, so the ISO had already stored the near-identical blocks once. And
auto-optimise-store (on by default here) hardlinks identical files: the two
paths share inodes — verified by stat, and du counts 639 MiB for the pair
against ~620 for one. The only thing that cannot dedupe is the wire, where the
extra path is its own 195 MiB NAR.

So this is a DOWNLOAD fix — precisely what #120's netinstall cares about — and
close to a no-op for the offline ISO that is the default today. Whether that
justifies coupling an overlay to nixpkgs wrapper internals is Bernardo's call;
it is guarded and no-ops if upstream moves, but it is his to weigh. Worth an
upstream patch regardless: the wrapper should take its desktop entry from the
variant it wraps.

The guard is the load-bearing part, because the failure mode is a SILENT no-op
that no build complains about: checks.chromium-single-closure asserts exactly
one full unwrapped chromium in the template closure, and was proved to fail by
neutering the overlay — it reports "found 2", names both paths, and warns off
the tempting "fix" of dropping enableWideVine, which silently removes DRM.

The rule this establishes, now recorded in ROADMAP and on #120 (whose entire
size table is closure arithmetic): closure size is not disk size and is not
image size. Measure the artifact.

V2: flake check, chromium-single-closure, live-baseline-apps, template-sot,
option-docs, state-bridges all pass. Three ISOs built from one tree for the
numbers above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 17:26:24 +01:00
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Docs map

Where human and agent documentation lives. Do not invent a third tree for the same facts.

Path Audience Role
../README.md Everyone What Nomarchy is, install, options tables
VISION.md Maintainers + agents Product north star toward v1.0 and beyond — themes, not a task queue
ROADMAP.md Maintainers + agents Design/decision records + shipped log (historical ✓)
HARDWARE.md Users + agents Firmware, profiles, drivers, unsupported machines
TESTING.md Maintainers + agents Verification ladder, honesty rule, ISO/VM recipes
RECOVERY.md Users Broken theme/desktop/boot → undo
OVERRIDES.md Users Downstream Nix overrides
MIGRATION.md Users Existing NixOS → Nomarchy without reinstall
OMARCHY.md Users Coming from Omarchy — bindings/theme/install/config map
Path Role
../AGENTS.md Agent entry point, any vendor/harness (CLAUDE.md symlinks to it)
../agent/README.md Agent instructions + executable loop state: BACKLOG, LOOP, VERIFICATION, …
../.claude/ Claude Code adapter only: permissions + subagent defs

How work flows

VISION  (what we want the product to feel like)
   │
   ▼  human triages slices into…
BACKLOG (what's next, ordered — agents execute only this)
   │
   ▼  lasting design notes after ship →
ROADMAP ✓ entries

Agents do not implement directly from VISION or ROADMAP. They take the top actionable item in agent/BACKLOG.md (see agent/LOOP.md). They may append PROPOSED pitches that reference VISION § … or ROADMAP § ….