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flake-utils-plus
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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.
rfcs
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Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems
Nix with dynamic derivations (RFC92) could potentially beat this curse.
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn...
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Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
See: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
- RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
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I like gentoo's package deprecation process
NixOS recently introduced "problem" infrastructure to deal with such problems more gracefully and explicitly:
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0127-issues-w...
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NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
For some more context: Flawed as they are, Flakes solve a large number of problems Nix experiences without them. This is why I, and presumably many others, use them even in their current experimental state.
An RFC was recently accepted to commit to forming a plan towards stabilization of Flakes: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
Personally, I don't believe there won't be any breaking changes, but I also believe that the stabilization of Flakes is still a ways away and hope that there will be a reasonable migration path.
- NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
- NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
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The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
NixOS needs to merge https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/133 to solve the issue
- Bootspec
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
> Afterwards, Flakes itself and its CLI components can be stabilized. The final design of Flakes will also require another RFC.
That seems like Flakes are still quite a ways away.
[1] - https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
First, the non-Flakes CLI wll be stabilized, in phases.
What are some alternatives?
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nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
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nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]