[Nix-dev] some basic questions from a new NixOS user

[Linus Arver]

Hello Shea,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:46:16PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm coming to this thread late and haven't read it all, but in case it's 
> useful I have working nixos configurations that use xmonad available 
> online. I don't use nix-env to install anything on my nixos systems, 
> just nixos-rebuild for it all.
> 
> See 
> https://github.com/shlevy/dotfiles/blob/master/nixos/common-configuration.nix 
> for the nixos configuration. If I remember correctly, the relevant parts 
> are the bottom half of environment.x11Packages and the services.xserver 
> stuff.
> 
> See https://github.com/shlevy/dotfiles/tree/master/xmonad for the xmonad 
> configuration files I use. I symlink the relevant ones to my home directory.
> 
> Cheers,
> Shea

Thank you for the links!  I am in the process of incorporating your
configuration style (using just nixos-rebuild for everything)... I will
report back after the big rebuild finishes.

-Linus