When doing local builds, we get phase reporting lines in the log file,
they look like '@nix {"action":"setPhase","phase":"unpackPhase"}'.
With the ssh-ng protocol, we do have access to these messages, but since we
are only including messages of type resBuildLogLine in the logs, the phase
information does not end up in the log file.
The phase reporting could probably be improved altoghether (it looks like it
is kind of accidental that these JSON messages for phase reporting show up
but others don't, just because they are actually emitted by nixpkgs' stdenv),
but as a first step I propose to make ssh-ng behave in the same way as local builds do.
I think the our `flake.nix` is currently too large and too scary looking.
I think this matters --- if Nix cannot dog-food itself in a way that is
elegant, why should other people have confidence that their own code can
be elegant and easy to maintain?
We could do this at many points in time, but I think around now, when we
are thinking about stabilizing parts of Flakes, is an especially good
time.
This is a first step to make the `flake.nix` smaller, and make
individual components responsible for their own packaging. I hope we can
do this many more follow-ups like it, until the top-level `flake.nix` is
very small and just coordinates between other things.
Ramses