[Nix-dev] Nix as a dotfiles manager

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 20:50:39 CET 2014


On 12/01/2014 11:52 AM, Roger Qiu wrote:
> What if Nix could have a lens functionality? Check out http://augeas.net/
>
> Then you could use lenses to manipulate the dot files or any config file
> from Nix.

Yeah, lenses are great things, but in this case it would take lots of 
work for *each* configuration type (each app). And I fail to see whether 
the result would be so much better than the dotfiles-in-git option.

Vladimir


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