neovim-nightly-overlay VS NUR

Don't use nix build to build neovim. Add an overlay to your flake and use home-manager programs.neovim option. It will automatically compile latest neovim for you when you rebuild the configuration.

Relevant? https://github.com/nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay/issues/164

You can use the overlay

You can use the nix-community overlay or the flake.

-- SNIP -- nixpkgs.overlays = [ (import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = https://github.com/nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz; })) ]; -- SNIP -- programs = { neovim = { enable = true; package = pkgs.neovim-nightly; configure = { customRC = (builtins.readFile ./init.vim); }; }; }; -- SNIP --

There is no centralised way of sharing user packages. But you can create package overlays or use sombodys overlays if you can find them (e.g. I use neovim nightly overlay).

However, then you run into this issue.

Ok so I am using https://github.com/nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay to build neovim from source in order to use the latest features. Does anyone know of any way I can specify makeflags, such as march=native or O3 when building the package? Thanks so much for your help.

I'm using https://github.com/nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay which does get Neovim 0.5 running, it's just not using my init.lua properly, picking up its own init.vim instead.

So first, I'm a bit confused about AUR. I'm not aware of what you're describing. I heard about AUR-like repo for Nix (called NUR https://github.com/nix-community/NUR).

You need to use nur

Hi, I'm the author of the PR :) I uploaded it to NUR precisely so that it would be available sooner. However, as I wrote in the thread yesterday, as of this PR one of the components the package was relying on was deprecated. I'm still trying to make it work again using the new buildFHSEnv. However, if you're running 22.11 or haven't updated your local version of nixpkgs beyond that PR, it should still work.

Apart from nixpkgs having many packages, there is also NUR which has even more stuff.

You might also want to publish your sarc utility on NUR, https://nur.nix-community.org/

nur = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/nix-community/NUR/archive/master.tar.gz") {

Nix also has the NUR. I have never needed to use it, while when I used arch I had many AUR packages.

Follow the NUR installation instructions and it should be in pkgs.nur.repos.arc.packages.nvidia-patch.

As for the community repo, there's nur but only 120 people use it.. I think the reason nixpkgs is so big is that the community is pretty accepting of accepting loads of different packages.

Some common options for the first: - your own git repo - your own flake (a specially constructed and easy to consume git repo) - something like NUR