Why nix is the one package manager to rule them all

• dots

  2 9 9.2 Shell

  Dotfiles for Linux and macOS. Managed by chezmoi. Includes i3, zsh, tmux, kitty, alacritty, yabai (by Allaman)

What I would appreciate are skeleton projects for different use cases. So, for instance, a use case for me is to manage packages. After too much time of digging through documentation (not so helpful), Reddit and Stack Overflow I came up with this file https://github.com/Allaman/dots/blob/main/dot_config/nixpkgs/config.nix. Via nix-env -iA nixpkgs.myPackages I could install those packages (faster than with brew). But how the heck would I update those packages? I couldn't find out.

• dotfiles

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You may be interested in looking at my dotfiles, which are managed with both chezmoi and home-manager. So when nix is available, chezmoi is invoked within home-manager. The two systems can even share template data (home-manager reads terminal colors from .chezmoidata.toml).

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