Also the tests (both runtests.py and tox) seem to fail, but only when building with nix. During the checkPhase, some files can not be accessed? I'm not sure what the tests do, though.

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This is still relevant to me. Marking as WIP, because I vaguely remember that the hachoir package also pulls in the hachoir-wx and hachoir-urwid scripts that don't work without the additional dependencies. I'll restart work soonish.

I don't see a way of excluding some dependencies without breaking parts of the library and some user-facing scripts. You can still override the package options if you want to use hachoir in a headless scenario.

self: super:
{
  hachoir-headless = super.hachoir.override {
    urwidSupport = false;
    wxPythonSupport = false;
    gtkSupport = false;
    qtSupport = false;
  };
}

This will result in parts of the package being broken, though.

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