nix-search-cli
hackage.nix
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nix-search-cli
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
- you may want to search from the command line
`nix search` is a cruel joke which doesn't allow searching by the name/program that would be installed, only package name, and requires a flake name every time. Absolutely terrible interface.
My tool is a single-install binary that performs fast and accurate search to help you find the right package name to install a given binary. I don't understand how after years of using other package managers anyone could want a search tool that does anything other than this by default.
For more details on why this exists, check out https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli#motivation
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn't let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like "what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command". I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!
https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli
- Show HN: nix-search-cli: find Nix packages from the CLI
hackage.nix
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
I believe the Hackage.nix library [1] has a solution to this problem, specifically for Haskell packages.
The `text` package [2] has many major, minor, and fix versions. Many of these versions are still required by projects. However, the current Nix Packages only has one version [3], and maybe a second version under a different name.
Hackage.nix will provide any version of `text` published on Hackage.
One downside is that `text` is not pulled from Nix Packages. The project's specific version of `text` must be cached elsewhere, or built from source. So it is slower.
[1] https://github.com/input-output-hk/hackage.nix
What are some alternatives?
nixbyexample - Learn nix by example
buck2-nix - Do not taunt happy fun ball
nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options
dateilager - Shared and versioned filesystem manager
text - Haskell library for space- and time-efficient operations over Unicode text.
comma - Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
rfcs - The Nix community RFCs
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments