npt
Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager. (by woile)
homer
The home directory management tool. (by tubbo)
npt | homer | |
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4 | 1 | |
24 | 27 | |
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4.4 | 0.0 | |
about 1 year ago | 5 months ago | |
Rust | Shell | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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
homer
Posts with mentions or reviews of homer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Dotfiles Management
I also track my dotfiles in a Git repo, but I only track my home directory. Made a tool to help out with some of the more arcane commands: https://github.com/tubbo/homer. I'm currently rewriting it in Rust, which is mostly done but I still have to work out a couple kinks on Linux machines . So far, I haven't needed to mess with too many top-level configs on each machine, most of the stuff I do is relatively contained (and uses the XDG standards thankfully). It got a little hairy when I tried to configure certain file paths on both a Linux and macOS environment, as there are different default conventions and other nuances that make the two not fully compatible at times. But it definitely saves a lot of time when setting up a new machine from scratch, `homer bootstrap $REPO_URL` does all the hard work and gets my home directory loaded up with configuration the way I'd expect.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing npt and homer you can also consider the following projects:
filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates
homies - My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc)
dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™
dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup
configs - Dot-files among other configs
dotfiles - Bootstrap your Ubuntu in a single command!
capacitor
dotfiles - A modern Zsh/tmux, Vim and Homebrew centric setup for macOS and Linux
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