[Nix-dev] Does $NIXPKGS_CONFIG still work for anyone?

[Tony White]

2009/10/16 Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:09, Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to use $NIXPKGS_CONFIG again which in my case I want to use
>> /nix/etc/config.nix to set some options system wide. git svn and the
>> jre plugin.
>> I remember using $NIXPKGS_CONFIG before and it worked. So I looked
>> back over the thread where it was explained to me how to use it.
>
> $NIXPKGS_CONFIG create some noise around reproducibility.  To ease
> reproducibility, we have to keep it as pure as possible.  Thus we
> should not depends on such environment variables.
>
>> Now I try to use it with modular NixOs and it doesn't seem to take any more.
>>
>> This is what's in /nix/etc/config.nix :
>>
>> {
>>        git = { svnSupport = true; };
>>        subversion = { perlBindings = true; };
>>        wrapFirefox = { jrePlugin = true; };
>> }
>
> Now NixOS allow you to define such configuration inside your computer
> configuration by defining the option "nixpkgs.config".  So inside you
> /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, just add:
>
> nixpkgs.config = {
>       git = { svnSupport = true; };
>       subversion = { perlBindings = true; };
>       wrapFirefox = { jrePlugin = true; };
> };
>
>
> --
> Nicolas Pierron
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>

Thanks Nic!
That's awesome! Much better than the old way. It's kind of making me
think of all the packages I want to create with minimal deps but with
switches for the whole shebang. :)

Thanks again!
Tony