[Nix-dev] NIXPKGS environment variable in nixos-rebuild

[Eelco Dolstra]

On 12/07/2010 06:11 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> nix-env (the other nixpkgs user) uses ~/.nix-defexpr only, so I don't think
> there is any use of NIXPKGS_ALL anywhere nowadays.

Not so, I use it all the time for building stuff outside the Nixpkgs tree.  For
instance, for building LaTeX documents:

rec {
  pkgs = import (builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL") {};

  doc = pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX {
    rootFile = ./doc.ltx;
    packages = [ pkgs.pg f];
  };
}

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