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nix
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NixOS 21.05 Released
I was able to make the switch over cold turkey after ~9 years of ArchLinux.
By sheer happenstance, I blogged earlier this week about one particular killer feature that doesn't get enough air time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344677
My not-flake-yet configuration can be found at https://github.com/rraval/nix
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Nix solves the package manager ejection problem
> How do NixOS users typically manage software that is not a Nix package
By writing a Nix package for it (I don't mean for this to sound flippant, tone is a bit hard to convey over text).
For example I have this alpha quality rust binary that I'm developing but I also want a stable version installed at the OS level. I write a Nix package and simply compose it into my overall NixOS configuration alongside the more official Nixpkgs: https://github.com/rraval/nix/blob/master/git-nomad.nix
> like a source code tarball where you would traditionally run configure && make && make install?
Nix has a bunch of defaults that make a conventional package like this straightforward.
Here's a package for a vanilla C binary + library that does the `autoreconf && ./configure && make && make install` dance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/secu...
It's almost a little misleading because the actual steps are largely inherited from the defaults, you can read more about `stdenv.mkDerivation` here: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/fundamentals-of-stdenv.ht...
runix
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NixOS 21.05 Released
I hate that they mentioned about ru.nix, published it on github for short time and then unpublished it[1].
[1] https://github.com/Shopify/runix/
What are some alternatives?
napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer @jtojnar]
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
config
rfcs - The Nix community RFCs