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597 mentions on Hacker News by 359 people: 26 stories, 571 comments · first 2013-12-15 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …files, but for example for zsh there's loads of things you can configure in the configuration.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p... (Found this by googling "nixpkgs zsh") You can still override stuff in your…
    comment by tinco · 2016-02-05 · in NixOS on Digital Ocean
  2. …that LLVM was being used inside Mesa. However, the only time I actually noticed it was when I hit https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11467 last week
    comment by chriswarbo · 2016-01-11 · in Llvmpipe: The Jitted OpenGL software renderer inside Mesa
  3. …If you've ever been frustrated with your package manager or build tools, give nix a shot! [1] https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs
    comment by smilliken · 2015-12-10 · in Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds
  4. …support coming in Nix for building standard layered Docker containers in a fully deterministic way: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11156 The deterministic properties of Guix and NixOS allow some amazing things. I personally prefer…
    comment by trishume · 2015-12-08 · in Environment containers in GNU Guix
  5. …track of all active clients and servers. * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89847 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7633 Related problems are what to do when one cannot shut down one's log daemon because the only way to…
    comment by JdeBP · 2015-11-02 · in Busybox removes support for systemd
  6. …are, admittedly, some kinks on master, though I have a PR to make things much, much more robust: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/8612 Unfortunately, while Bundler is generally a great, useful piece of software, there are aspects of…
    comment by cstrahan · 2015-08-31 · in Ruby on Guix
  7. For NixOS it looks like there was some work on reproducible builds, but it seems to have stalled: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/2281
    comment by dkubb · 2015-08-21 · in Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds
  8. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos If you had bothered looking in the wiki everything is listed there.
    comment by sondr3 · 2015-06-13 · in NixOS Linux
  9. It does, but it's not in it's own repo, it's in nixpkgs at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos
    comment by davidrusu · 2015-06-13 · in NixOS Linux
  10. …about taking pull requests). Looks like gnome3 is packaged now, I'll have to give it another shot: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...
    comment by xiaomai · 2015-06-12 · in NixOS Linux
  11. I've updated NixOS to include 2.0.0-1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fe6ec3d13a1554458e64... - any way we can get it mentioned on the website?
    comment by thoughtpolice · 2015-04-14 · in RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
  12. I don't know much about the nix language, but it looks to me like the gpgme support is optional: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
    comment by barkmadley · 2015-01-05 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment
  13. …jinja). I'll continue to follow and learn more about Nix, but anxiously awaiting my epiphany. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1a504e3fb72fab10799cf0...
    comment by retr0h · 2015-01-04 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment
  14. FYI: NixOS source is hosted on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    comment by iElectric2 · 2015-01-04 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment
  15. > But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal? The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g... If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE:…
    comment by chriswarbo · 2014-11-26 · in St – simple terminal
  16. Very easy. git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build -A packagename Building the dependencies is completely automated. For more information, see the nixpkgs contributor's guide: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ Note…
    comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released
  17. Can you clarify what's wrong with nixpkgs? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Granted, it's not yet perfect, but my experience with it so far has left me very impressed.
    comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released
  18. Nix is attempting to be the solution you're looking for. Look at the nixpkgs repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs You will see packages for tons of stuff, including: * Python packages from PyPi:…
    comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released
  19. …and you just need to look at the Github [1] to see that NixOS is maintained quite actively. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master
    comment by aristidb · 2014-08-30 · in We're building the GNU system [pdf]
  20. …was able to create simple packages after a couple days. You can find many examples in nixpkgs, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Is that not AwesomeWM btw? There are some rough edges around package…
    comment by pmahoney · 2014-04-29 · in The Nix project – Atomic upgrades, rollbacks and multi-user package management
  21. …but only tried Deb a few times. I'd argue it's way easier. Here is an example of packaged nginx https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/ht... In a nutshell, you need to know the following: - be familiar with basics of Nix…
    comment by iElectric2 · 2013-12-15 · in I'm giving a talk at FOSDEM: NixOS, declarative configuration Linux distribution