[Nix-dev] 5 somewhat related questions

[Linus]

On 24 June 2017 20:07:27 BST, Matt McHenry <matt at mchenryfamily.org> wrote:
>The only major downside of this approach is that I have to always
>remember to give '-I nixpkgs=...' arguments to all the usual nix
>commands.  But that's become pretty second nature to me by now.  :)

You could also set NIX_PATH in one of various locations to avoid having to specify it on every invocation.