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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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I very recently put some effort into tidying up my dotfiles, and have a brief writeup at https://chatwithsysop.com/blog/2022/12/31/dotfiles-cleanup (none of this was done with the academic rigor required to withstand a deconstruction by HN, it is just a log of one person's experience with a weekend project).
I chose to use yadm (http://yadm.io) for no particular reasons beyond that I found it first, and it seemed reasonable. It's more just a wrapper around putting GIT_DIR elsewhere.
1. It doesn't do a good job in making a backup of existing files as it's meant to be setup on a new machine. However, the setup script can be quickly modified to backup existing files. See [0].
2. Yes, it installs required packages via brew both on macOS and Linux. See [1].
[0] https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles/blob/master/sw/assets/...
[1] https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles/blob/master/sw/bin/exe...
Nice hack, but I still believe that home-manager [0] should be the way to go. It's the gateway drug to the Nix ecosystem and cleanly solves the composability problem which this "one-size-fits-all repo checked out to root" approach will have some trouble with.
[0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
I was unhappy with existing solutions, especially I wanted the ability to handle differences between machines. So I built my own! You're welcome to see if you like it :)
https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter
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.
Dotbot (https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot) has worked extremely well for me. It’s simple to setup, has minimal dependencies, and it is also easy to run arbitrary commands if I want to get tricky with things. I would highly recommend it.
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
I moved away from using a dotfiles repo a few years ago because I kept forgetting to add/commit files as I changed them.
Instead I use mackup[0] which automatically manages symlinks to your Dropbox/Drive/Share and has support for a huge amount of software by default. You can also manually add “extra” files you wish to track if you like.
[0] https://github.com/lra/mackup
You can use chezmoi to manage files outside your home directory if you really want to.
For an example, see https://github.com/felipecrs/dotfiles:
The `home` directory contains home directory files.
The `root` directory contains root directory files (e.g `/etc`).
I previously found the same idea there : https://github.com/Snaipe/dot-git
Any home-manager users on NixOS here? Are there any killer features in home-manager for you? I tried home-manager for a bit, but just went back to plain NixOS after I couldn't find anything it did better than what I was already using ([1], [2]).
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/tilde
[2] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root
Any home-manager users on NixOS here? Are there any killer features in home-manager for you? I tried home-manager for a bit, but just went back to plain NixOS after I couldn't find anything it did better than what I was already using ([1], [2]).
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/tilde
[2] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root
I've been using this which is pretty rad
https://github.com/cszatmary/dot
I didn't discover Chezmoi until seeing this thread (sigh). I developed a tool, [filetailor](https://github.com/k4j8/filetailor), with an almost identical goal (dotfile management while accounting for differences across machines). It uses Python and YAML, but from what I can tell is similar in concept to Chezmoi.
One thing I like about filetailor I didn't see in Chezmoi was the ability to surround code with a comment specifying which machines it should be commented/uncommented for. It's easier than templates in some situations.
It works great, but there's probably tons of bugs that occur when used by someone other than me. I don't have a CS background and this was my first big hobby project.
Chezmoi[1] has been working well for me recently, replacing a set of Stow-able directories in a simple Git repo.
I haven't started using templates and things, for now it's just environment variables.
[1]: https://chezmoi.io
I see a lot of people mentioning home-manager / nix in the comments. I tried drinking the nix kool-aid and home-manager and all that was a little too much more me and landed on a hybrid approach:
https://github.com/sontek/homies
1. I use a `justfile` that calls `nix profile install ...` to install my packages, rather than using a nix configuration file. This allows me to use a standard package manager workflow rather than going "all in".
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L24-L2...
2. I then use GNU Stow to install my dotfile configuration:
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L93-L9...
I think this is a great middle ground where I can utilize `nix` as my package manager across Linux and Mac and have consistency while not having to learn the whole configuration language or change my workflow.
The other tools I use heavily in my environment:
- https://asdf-vm.com/: I find this better than installing python/node/etc from nix.
- https://github.com/casey/just: I use this as my command runner (similar to make but cleaner in my opinion)
I see a lot of people mentioning home-manager / nix in the comments. I tried drinking the nix kool-aid and home-manager and all that was a little too much more me and landed on a hybrid approach:
https://github.com/sontek/homies
1. I use a `justfile` that calls `nix profile install ...` to install my packages, rather than using a nix configuration file. This allows me to use a standard package manager workflow rather than going "all in".
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L24-L2...
2. I then use GNU Stow to install my dotfile configuration:
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L93-L9...
I think this is a great middle ground where I can utilize `nix` as my package manager across Linux and Mac and have consistency while not having to learn the whole configuration language or change my workflow.
The other tools I use heavily in my environment:
- https://asdf-vm.com/: I find this better than installing python/node/etc from nix.
- https://github.com/casey/just: I use this as my command runner (similar to make but cleaner in my opinion)
I see a lot of people mentioning home-manager / nix in the comments. I tried drinking the nix kool-aid and home-manager and all that was a little too much more me and landed on a hybrid approach:
https://github.com/sontek/homies
1. I use a `justfile` that calls `nix profile install ...` to install my packages, rather than using a nix configuration file. This allows me to use a standard package manager workflow rather than going "all in".
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L24-L2...
2. I then use GNU Stow to install my dotfile configuration:
https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile#L93-L9...
I think this is a great middle ground where I can utilize `nix` as my package manager across Linux and Mac and have consistency while not having to learn the whole configuration language or change my workflow.
The other tools I use heavily in my environment:
- https://asdf-vm.com/: I find this better than installing python/node/etc from nix.
- https://github.com/casey/just: I use this as my command runner (similar to make but cleaner in my opinion)
I found that most tooling was overkill and now just use a single <100 Bash script [0].
[0] https://github.com/TheKnarf/configs/blob/master/setup
I did something similar here https://github.com/redraw/dotfiles, along with some installation scripts
although, nice idea on tracking the whole / instead of just ~/!
the only thing I miss after aliasing dotfiles to git, is that you lose git's autocompletion features. I once tried to set it up in zsh with autocomp, but without success, should review that