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by mjhoy
3546 days ago
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> its way too hard to create new packages Perhaps it is hard to discover how to, but I was about to post here and say one of the best things about nix is how easy it is to hack and add packages. It does require a bit of learning about how it works, but once you do the whole system is quite understandable. It's also very easy to test out things locally, overriding and extending the nix package collection. It is fairly straightforward to set up, build and install your own local projects as nix packages. Even I -- a mere web developer, who mostly uses OS X -- got a package definition merged into the main repository, it was that simple. One series of blog posts that is good in this regard is the Nix pill series: http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2014/07/nix-pill-1-why-you-sho... |
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