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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by unnah on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:08AM (#30395592)
Speaking of vim vs emacs, how does the nix command line interface compare to GNU Guix?
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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by opan on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:45AM (#30398421)
Guix greatly simplifies things. Like others said for Nix, I really would recommend managing things declaratively in your system config and a manifest file, but the basic cli isn't bad.

guix install ranger

guix remove ranger

guix pull

guix upgrade

guix search ranger

These basics just work how you'd expect last I checked. There is some `guix shell` stuff as well, but I don't use it, so won't be able to say much about it.

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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by rekado on Sunday February 27, 2022 @12:10PM (#30490259)
See the refcard for an overview on the Guix CLI: https://guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf
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