[zamalek]

I try to contribute a lot, which has resulting in me adding .direnv and .envrc to my global gitignores (for other Nix+hm folks[1]). .direnv for obvious reasons, it's a cache, and doesn't frequently show up in project gitignores.

I add .envrc to not only avoid committing it to projects that don't use it, but also because it turns out that it's still pretty environment dependent. There's 100 different ways to skin the dependency problem: Nix, pipenv, nvm, rustup, etc. There's no telling which a contributor prefers to use, so .envrc doesn't belong in git IMHO. What could be committed is something like .envrc-flake (which can then be sourced into .envrc).

As for needing a flake in the repo, I have found a workaround. `use flake` accepts parameters, including the path to the flake. I have a bunch of shells[2] that I can import with e.g. `use flake ~/Nix#rust`.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/nix/src/branch/main/home/co... [2]: https://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/nix/src/branch/main/flake.n...