[Nix-dev] Notes and ideas about the Nix-UI proposal

[Taeer Bar-Yam]

+1 on the user-level configuration.nix.

Could we also use this to bring dotfiles into the nix fold?

I'm not sure what the current system for dotfile management is, but my impression is it is close to nonexistant. It would be nice to add this to the nix way of managing things. A user-level configuration file seems like *a* right way to do this.
  --Taeer
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:42 PM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> 
> I keep seeing this transaction argument but what is the use-case for it ?
> 
> For complex scenarios I think it would be best to have a user-equivalent of the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file and a `nix switch` command to apply the changes in a transactional manner. Then `nix install` and friends might be implemented in terms of amending the user's configuration.nix or related file and then run `nix switch`. That way it's easy to synchronize the profile between computers. `nix install` might even gain a `--no-switch` flag to just manipulate that list.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 at 18:03 Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de <mailto:mail at beyermatthias.de>> wrote:
> So `nix do nix` would do nothing?
> 
> (Joke for the germans)
> 
> I like the idea of having `nix do`.
> 
> On 23-01-2016 17:11:15, Oliver Charles wrote:
> > `nix do`? :)
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:59 PM Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de <mailto:mail at beyermatthias.de>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 23-01-2016 17:39:09, Christian Theune wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like the direction where this is going a lot. A big +1 from my side.
> > >
> > > Same here.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > As a suggestion to the transactional behaviour, I’d like to avoid
> > > unnecessary shell quoting. How about “+” instead of “;"? I could imagine
> > > another non-colliding operator from the nix language, but “;” as a
> > > statement separator is going to be confusing because bash already uses it
> > > for almost the same thing.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I want to second this! Especially because "\" is kinda hard to type on
> > > german
> > > keyboards (two strokes and a weird location of both keys, ergonomically).
> > > "+"
> > > sounds much better.
> > >
> > > What would be nice is a "repl"-like thing where you can do this:
> > >
> > >     nix transaction
> > >     > install firefox
> > >     > uninstall chromium
> > >     > commit  ## or maybe ctrl-D
> > >     [nix] transaction about to be committed... doing things now
> > >
> > > (ofc, the `nix install firefox $sep uninstall chromium` variant should be
> > > available as well)
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Kind regards,
> > > Matthias Beyer
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