Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix

Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by Filligree on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:54AM (#34491433)

I use an update script that overrides that location to $(pwd), and also uses nvd to print a package diff for the update. Among a few other niceties. With flakes, that's a regular nixos-rebuild flag; otherwise it's an envvar.

/etc/nixos is just the default, there's a number of ways to set your own path. One of the simplest might be to put "import /home/wherever" as the sole contents of configuration.nix.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by cole-h on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:01PM (#34491564)

That sounds like a nice little workflow; I might have to incorporate something like that with `nvd`...

Though, it should be said that `import /home/wherever` might not work if you switch to / use flakes, as that is likely outside of the flake's git repo (and thus impure).

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