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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by cgdub on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:19PM (#12981092)
You can also go one step further and have the configuration for the entire OS in text files with something like NixOS. https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html

Want to see what your PC was really like 2 months ago, including rolling back updates and removing new applications you installed and vice-versa? You can do that. Even if you switched desktop environments.

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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by mrkgnao on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:39PM (#12981294)
Can you get a Spacemacs setup working on NixOS, with layers and so on? In general, assuming one is willing to write a bit of glue code/NixOS versions of patches/ebuilds/PKGBUILDs, can one get one's configuration from $distro working on NixOS?

I use Haskell, so I've been meaning to switch to Nix for a while.

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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by cgdub on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:48PM (#12981384)
Spacemacs works fine if you install it normally. Most dotfiles in your home directory will work as usual.

I'm not familiar with ebuild or PKGBUILD. You'd probably have to rewrite them as Nix expressions.

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