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A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2021-10-10 · latest 2026-09-25

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  1. …while keeping the llama.cpp branches and/or compiled binaries mutable on the local filesystem. https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv for agentic execution sandboxing, preventing 'rm -rf /home' nix or nix-direnv doesn't help, podman…
  2. …to ask questions about Nix in the NixOS Discourse "Help" section. I have some recommendations: 1. https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv - Since Nix derivations usually wrap around other build systems, the entire derivation is…
    comment by jchw · 2024-05-21 · in Enlightenmentware
  3. …or shell.nix or whatever, you’ll need to watch_file resp. nix_direnv_watch_file those.) [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv#direnv-source_ur...
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-12-25 · in Nix and NixOS, my pain points
  4. …bug that I was dealing with, and they had a release that fixed it shortly after I reported it. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv#flakes-support
  5. …to a team without teaching them (most) nix Still, apart from those, this is still a good intro. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv [2] https://github.com/numtide/devshell
  6. …which helps. But I think a suggested DX is to make use of direnv. e.g. the nix-direnv template: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv/blob/master/temp... I think this still leaves a gap from what `nix-shell --pure` had.
    comment by rgoulter · 2022-02-22 · in Nix Flakes: An Introduction
  7. …bare-bones but works well, and can be very practical once you use something like `nix-direnv` ( https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv/ ). There is also this `devshell` ( https://numtide.github.io/devshell/intro.html ) project that is…