nix-config
homebrew-cask-versions
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5 | 1,185 | |
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4.5 | 10.0 | |
over 2 years ago | 2 days ago | |
Nix | Ruby | |
- | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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nix-config
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20 Years of Nix
> I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.
Heh, that reminds me of installing NixOS back around 2014. I didn't have any way to physically boot off the install CD; so I ran it in qemu, using my real /dev/sda as the "virtual" hard drive (which I'd already partitioned). Thankfully there was no interference with the host system (Trisquel).
I'm still using (and evolved version of) the same NixOS config to this day; it still contains the following comment ( https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machin... ):
trace "FIXME: Which modules are artefacts of using QEMU to install?"
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The Curse of NixOS
Where nixpkgs2105 is a pinned revision of the Nixpkgs repo, defined in another overlay. My current Nix config has pinned Nixpkgs versions going back to 2016. For example, here's a bunch of such overrides:
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/overrides/fi...
At the moment I'm using niv to manage the pinned Nixpkgs versions (the 'repoXXXX' entries):
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nix/sources...
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
`nix-env` is an imperative command, whilst writing a .nix file is declarative. In particular, the latter can be managed using git.
For example, here's a system-wide config dating back to Feb 2015: https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config
(That's actually a NixOS config; my macOS config is in a private repo, but it imports that repo to define its "one big system package")
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
> I'd like to see other configs from nix users too if you're still here!
Here's mine https://github.com/warbo/nix-config
I've used Nix/NixOS for about 8 years, but not delved into flakes yet.
homebrew-cask-versions
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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Ventura 13.3 to Developers (build: 22E5230e)
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions/blob/master/Casks/safari-technology-preview.rb -> that would brew install safari-technology-preview then, remembered it right.
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
> If I just wanted to install google-chrome, sublime, and skype, I would use the app store.
None of those is available on the Mac App Store. I don’t understand the argument you’re trying to make.
> In contrast to how it used to be, Homebrew now seems designed for people that only want popular bleeding edge packages, and nobody else.
Homebrew Cask—which is what you’re referring to in the reminder of that paragraph—has always been focused on the latest versions of packages. The versions repo[1] is secondary with stricter rules for acceptance.
[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
What are some alternatives?
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
nvd
homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
arkade - Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools
.nixpkgs
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
nix-dotfiles - Dotfiles for my Nix setup
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git