nix-config
NixOS + home-manager + Emacs configuration flake (by akirak)
flake-utils-plus
Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)
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| 2 | 19 | |
| 1 | 446 | |
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| 8.8 | 4.9 | |
| about 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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nix-config
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-config.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
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How to install GUI apps with nix on non-NixOS systems?
On Chrome OS, the instruction is documented at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Crostini, but I am using the following home-manager module: https://github.com/akirak/nix-config/blob/cd52178b684664c55ea50159d0f6aa5ea6b1a33e/home/modules/crostini.nix
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Where?
Actually, I have my own work in progress: https://github.com/akirak/nix-config. It contains a NixOS container that integrates a minimal home-manager configuration:
flake-utils-plus
Posts with mentions or reviews of flake-utils-plus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.
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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
You don't need channels to use nix-shell or nix-env. You can generate the Nix path and registry from your flake inputs. flake-utils-plus makes this easy with nix.generateRegistryFromInputs and nix.generateNixPathFromInputs.
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-config and flake-utils-plus you can also consider the following projects:
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
nix-update - Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.
flake-utils-plus vs Home Manager using Nix
flake-utils-plus vs flake-utils
flake-utils-plus vs nixGL
flake-utils-plus vs poetry2nix
flake-utils-plus vs NixOS-docker
flake-utils-plus vs deploy-rs
flake-utils-plus vs nix-processmgmt
flake-utils-plus vs NUR
flake-utils-plus vs digga
flake-utils-plus vs nix-bundle
flake-utils-plus vs nixos-shell
flake-utils-plus vs nix-update