[Nix-dev] How to use .nixpkgs/config.nix?

[Kamil Chmielewski]

Hi,

what did you find to be complicated in my config?
I started to use NixOS to have fully declarative user environment and it
was my first nix code, copied from wiki and diffrent places on github. It
may require some refactorings but it works for almost a year without big
changes so I don't have a lot of motivation to make it better :/ But I can
find some time to some changes if this will make it more approachable for
newcomers.
The '_pkgs : with _pkgs; {' part comes from
https://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_keep_multiple_packages_up_to_date_at_once.

--
Kamil


2016-06-05 15:46 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Czaplinski <czapkofan at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
> I'd like to have my home dir & per-user set of packages managed
> declaratively. I've seen some suggestions, from which I seem to
> believe I could try to do that using .nixpkgs/config.nix. Is that
> possible? how could I do that the simplest way?
>
> I'm new to Nix/NixOS. I've set up a simple NixOS install on a laptop,
> but I'm having trouble understanding how to use local config.nix vs.
> global configuration.nix. The manuals seem very sparse on config.nix
> to me. The config.nix from Kamil Chmielewski [1] seems somewhat
> acceptable to me at first sight, but I still don't get why config.nix
> seems so much more complicated than configuration.nix? Is it possible
> to make it simpler?
>
> I'd like to start with a simplest config which would let me add some
> packages which would be available for my user immediately after login
> (also when logging in straight to an X session).
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1750#issuecomment-186385710
>
> Thanks,
> /Mateusz Czapliński.
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