[Nix-dev] Best way to install nix packages from github repo

[joachifm at fastmail.fm]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, at 02:09 PM, Kelong Cong wrote:
> I'm not too familiar with nix expression yet so using nix-env -f appears
> to be the easiest approach at the moment.

Note that `nix-env -f` can be used with http(s) urls as well, so you can
point to an autogenerated
github archive, e.g.,
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz, if you want all 
the latest
bugs.