nixos-search
Search NixOS packages and options (by NixOS)
manix
A fast CLI documentation searcher for Nix. (by mlvzk)
| nixos-search | manix | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 6 | |
| 372 | 325 | |
| 6.5% | - | |
| 7.2 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Elm | Rust | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nixos-search
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-search.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Why is the documentation... nowhere to be found?!
For me, https://search.nixos.org/ is a better aid than the wiki. Often the right keyword in the NixOS packages or modules search will lead me right to the obvious and simple answer that I couldn't find elsewhere.
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Nix packages security, safety, and privacy
Does https://search.nixos.org/ pull from nixpkgs, the Nix User Repository, or both?
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What is the difference between:
Just go to search.nixos.org, open the option you would like to see more of, and click on the link behind "Declared in".
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
I've done a nix-env query, and checked in https://search.nixos.org but can't seem to find any SAR package, nor any google search that gave any hints to see if it might be part of another system utility package...
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My First Impressions of Nix
If you want to install a package, search for it at https://search.nixos.org
The gnome system monitor is gnome.gnome-system-monitor for example https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=gnome.g...
- How can I see what options are available for a certain import?
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
search.nixos.org also includes flakes that people PR into the index via GitHub at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues
ps: $ nix search exists via experimental flags https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...
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Thinking about to switch from Fedora Sliverblue to NixOS with following use case…
Idk about ec_sys, I couldn't find it on search.nixos.org, but since it's a kernel module it might just come with the kernel idk.
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How do you quickly browse the source of a flake input
I rarely think to look at flakes by their source, actually. I have a Nixpkgs clone that I jump into for anything super ad-hoc but most of the time I'm just doing REPL, :lf ./. and mashing tab-completion. That's usually to make sure the thing I'm after exists in one of the large package sets like node, vimPlugins, or similar, and that I got the name right - which could probably be answered just as easily with https://search.nixos.org/ .
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How big is the nix store?
search.nixos.org
manix
Posts with mentions or reviews of manix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.
- Manix – A fast CLI documentation searcher for Nix
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Leaking Bitwarden's Vault with a Nginx vulnerability
I found this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/mlvzk/manix
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How to find list of options for home-manager?
I suggest installing manix it is available through nix and let's you search multiple sources (home-manager nix ect).
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/NixOS Subdirect Statistics
One good example of what Nix documentation could be is this guy's "concept art" of what Nix function documentation could look like. Just being able to generate JSON schemas for Nix functions somehow would be really cool. (The information is there, just hidden in either function argument specifiers { path, text } or in comments like in nixpkgs' lib/lists.nix.) Stuff like the manix doc searcher is really cool and desperately needed. When I get some free time I want to try autogenerating Nix function schemas from their declarations, or even autogenerating schemas for flakes and the like from their checking in C++.
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How do you find all the options for configuring a package?
There is also a CLI: https://github.com/mlvzk/manix
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Noob: where are docs for package configuration?
I use manix for that purpose, it gives you a quick way of search for config options directly from the command line, as opposed to opening up the man page and searching inside that: https://github.com/mlvzk/manix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos-search and manix you can also consider the following projects:
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
gixy - Nginx configuration static analyzer
diffuse - A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
dist - Resources for packaging and distributing Caddy
elm-lang.org - Server and client code for the Elm website.
merecat - Small and made-easy HTTP/HTTPS server based on Jef Poskanzer's thttpd
nixos-config - My NixOS configuration
vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
dotnix - nix stuff
static-web-server - A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Dotfiles.nix - My reproducible system config made with nix