runix
A type-safe Rust interface to the Nix CLI (by flox)
npt
Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager. (by woile)
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| runix | npt | |
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| 2 | 4 | |
| 100 | 24 | |
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| 6.8 | 4.4 | |
| 3 months ago | 12 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
runix
Posts with mentions or reviews of runix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-07.
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The Flox Open Beta
We see a few tools that do a similar built-on-top-of-Nix approach, so we released a Rust library that makes using the "command line API" in a more type-safe manner: https://github.com/flox/runix
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flox – Harness the Power of Nix
I wasn't aware of npt, thanks! We've also released https://github.com/flox/runix as a library to make it easier to wrap Nix.
npt
Posts with mentions or reviews of npt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
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Nix noob question
You can also just install flakes doing nix profile install . I wrote a tool to make it a bit easier, npt but it's completely optional. Once you install the packages with nix profile. Then in your repos you can use a flake with a devShell and run nix develop. Check https://flake.parts to write your flakes.
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flox – Harness the Power of Nix
I've been working in something similar https://github.com/woile/npt but it's in much earlier stages.
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Nix journey part 2: replacing apt and brew
Me too! That's why I wrote the small wrapper on nix to install imperatively, the npt, which gets the job done, though an official alternative would be better. I understand nix side, but it's hard to break old habits, and not only that, it would be ideal if I can install nix at my parents, and let them use a simple tool with nix underneath. This means for me, focusing only on nix.
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Dotfiles Management
I've just (literally a few hours ago) started a tool trying to follow those principles.
https://github.com/woile/npt
I still don't know if it's worth, I have to experiment a bit more with it
What are some alternatives?
When comparing runix and npt you can also consider the following projects:
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates
lanzaboote - Secure Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur]
dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™
dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]
configs - Dot-files among other configs
capacitor
dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup
nixos-mailserver
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
dotfiles - A modern Zsh/tmux, Vim and Homebrew centric setup for macOS and Linux