nix-home-config

Example of using nix for managing user environment packages

Uses:

• [niv][https://github.com/nmattia/niv] to manage dependencies for nix projects.
• [NUR][https://github.com/nix-community/NUR] to pull in extra user packages that are not part of the nixpkgs repo.

Usage

Adding a package

To quickly use this, add a package to common.nix:

with import ./nix {};
[
  cowsay
]

Now install packages:

nix-env -i -f default.nix --remove-all

Now packages should be available in shell:

$ fortune
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Specifying config for each package

This depends on how each package reads their configuration.

e.g. for neovim, we can simply specify the configuration via override. See common.nix.

Folder structure

External Resources

• https://www.nmattia.com/posts/2018-03-21-nix-reproducible-setup-linux-macos.html

Alternatives

• Home Manager (personally haven't used it). However, it seems like a heavyweight solution versus just specifying the config for each package individually.

TODO

• [] add common patterns for importing (e.g. nur, directly from repo from niv, from package repos similar to pypi npm etc.)