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by siraben 2045 days ago
Related issue[0].

I moved over from Homebrew to Nix around 5 months ago, haven't since needed to use Homebrew except for casks.

[0] "Support for Apple Silicon (aarch64-darwin)" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903
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soraminazuki 2044 days ago
It can replace casks too, as mac apps can also be packaged in Nix.
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siraben 2044 days ago
Where can I find out how to do this?
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soraminazuki 2044 days ago
Installing a package is enough. For example, if you install the emacs package, Emacs.app would be available in ~/.nix-profile/Applications/Emacs.app.

If you want to launch apps you've installed with Nix using Lanchpad or Spotlight, you can use nix-darwin[1] or home-manager[2] to create a symlink in ~/Applications, though the latter seems to have temporarily disabled this feature due to conflicts between the two.

[1]: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/syste... [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/mo...

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siraben 2043 days ago
> Installing a package is enough. For example, if you install the emacs package, Emacs.app would be available in ~/.nix-profile/Applications/Emacs.app.

Right. I'm using home-manager on darwin and various apps like Emacs, Alacritty, Kitty are supported. However, many GUI apps are not, such as Firefox, so that's why I'm still using Homebrew's cask.

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