nix-community/home-manager
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Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@khaneliman, @rycee]
65 mentions on Hacker News by 53 people: 3 stories, 62 comments · first 2017-09-08 · latest 2026-04-23
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…pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed. [0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by sjagoe · 2020-04-16 · in My experience with NixOS -
…like that's what home-manager[1] was designed to do. Certainly works pretty well for me. [1]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by Sean1708 · 2020-02-11 · in I Was Wrong about Nix -
…defined in a single file. Maybe one day :) [1] https://github.com/nix-community/NUR [2] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by foopdoopfoop · 2019-10-20 · in Attempting to Use GNU Guix -
…manager, 'nix'. In the context of OPs question, you might also want to mention home-manager ( https://github.com/rycee/home-manager )
comment by _frkl · 2019-07-14 · in Ask HN: What are you all using to automate desktop setup and config? -
…tooling for that Have a look at home manager[0], I use it and have been very happy so far. [0]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by asymmetric · 2019-01-15 · in Guix: An advanced operating system -
…of the configuration is for desktop stuff and NixOS doesn't really cover that. I like home-manager: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by Ralith · 2018-11-02 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution -
…place. For now astroid/alot/offlineimap/mbsync/msmtp are supported. Neomutt support incoming https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/pull/300
comment by amuro · 2018-10-02 · in Luke's mutt wizard for automatic Neomutt and OfflineIMAP configuration -
…cd out of myproject and you are back to the macOS userland. [1] https://nixos.org/nix/ [2] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by danieldk · 2018-09-09 · in Show HN: Linuxify – Transform the MacOS CLI into a GNU/Linux CLI Experience -
Have you tried using something like `home-manager` ( https://github.com/rycee/home-manager )? It gives you declarative package and configuration management with Nix on non-NixOS. It might be a nice compromise until NixOS/Nixpkgs is mature…
comment by pxc · 2018-04-07 · in NixOS 18.03 Released -
…and postgres installed using home-manager to run as my own user on demand under systemctl. [0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by vertex-four · 2018-04-06 · in NixOS 18.03 Released -
There's https://github.com/rycee/home-manager I haven't used it yet, but intent to try soon.
comment by boothead · 2017-10-16 · in What is Nix and why you should try it -
alternative: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
comment by Mic92 · 2017-09-08 · in Using GNU Stow to manage dotfiles (2013)