Build fails on `nix` using provided `cef-binary`

[xaltsc]

Nix already provides cef-binary, which I can easily refactor into a form that's acceptable for runtime.

Building cef-rs or cef-dll-sys however fails because the provided CEF folder doesn't have an archive.json which is required by download-cef for some reason.

download-cef is set as a dependency of both cef-rs and cef-dll-sys. Is this really necessary ? Shouldn't that be a feature ? Is there a way to completely ignore any code coming from download-cef ?

[xaltsc]

See here for more details and related discussion jellyfin/jellyfin-desktop#527 (comment)

[xaltsc]

So, apparently, from discussions with @andrewrambert, the maintainer of https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-desktop, archive.json can be faked, and he does that as well. Values don't seem to matter except maybe for the type field.

Here's what I came up with (I'm giving the result, not the nix expression)

{
  "name": "cef_binary_149.0.4+g2f1bfd8+chromium-149.0.7827.156_linux64_minimal.tar.bz2",
  "sha1": "sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=",
  "type": "minimal"
}

I guess this is an argument in favour of the superfluousness of whatever download-cef does whenever CEF is already provided.