nixpkgs VS nix-doom-emacs

I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix.

Some specific ones I really like:

https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs

https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles

I keep a not comprehensive GitHub Stars list of Nix stuff I find here if you want more:

https://github.com/stars/heywoodlh/lists/nix

If you aren’t familiar, Nix-Darwin allows you to codify your MacOS deployments in a fashion comparable to NixOS. As a huge Nix-Darwin user myself, I have found malob’s repo extremely helpful for ideas with MacOS configuration. Nix-Darwin has made me so happy as a MacOS user. :)

Some other unsolicited tips:

1. Start with Nix flakes for configuration

2. Invest in Home-Manager before NixOS or Nix-Darwin

3. Ask people for help in Matrix or Discourse — my experience is that Nix-related folk are very welcoming and understanding

Good luck!

I don't think system.autoUpgrade will work at all with flakes since you'd need to update your flake lock file for anything to get updated. I've seen a way to do that automatically with github actions here.

https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs/discussions/6 (discussion on how to bootstrap a Flake file on Darwin)

I have found a nix code that manages to package doom-emacs and I know it isn't the same as guix, the idea is imo quite similar.

I use this it works great.

let doom-emacs = pkgs.callPackage (builtins.fetchTarball { url = https://github.com/vlaci/nix-doom-emacs/archive/master.tar.gz; sha256 = "1g0izscjh5nv4n0n1m58jc6z27i9pkbxs17mnb05a83ffdbmmva6"; }) { doomPrivateDir = ./doom.d; # Directory containing your config.el init.el # and packages.el files }; in { home.packages = [ doom-emacs ]; home.file.".emacs.d/init.el".text = '' (load "default.el") ''; } ```