Nixing

A place to collect things about Nix, it is also where to keep my dotfiles¹.

Overview

This project offers Nix packages maintained by myself and their Nixpkgs overlays, extended NixOS modules and Home Manager modules.

Additionally, this project retains my NixOS host configuration, Home Manager user configuration, disk layout configuration with disko, and deployment configuration with colmena.

I use std and hive to support the continuous growth of the code in this repository. All packages, modules, and overlays keep across different subdirectories (called cell) under the nix directory (called cellBlock). You can read the paisano documentation to understand the details and principles of code organization.

Nixpkgs overlays

This repository provides the following overlays.

• emacs, offers my portable GNU Emacs configurations.
• proprius-fonts, offers some proprietary fonts.
• unfree, provides some non-free software.

NixOS modules

This repository provides the following NixOS modules.

• fonts, helps generate optimized fontconfig for languages, currently including English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
• my-emacs, provides customized support for my portable GNU Emacs configurations on NixOS.
• tsangertype-fonts, Supports the installation of all TsangerType fonts or a subset of them.

Home Manager modules

Currently, the Home Manager modules provided by this repository align in functionality and naming with the NixOS modules.

Getting Started

I recommend use Nix Flake to import my packages, modules, and overlays, as I have not tested other methods.

Firstly, add my repository to inputs.

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/unstable";

  inputs.brsvh.url = "github:brsvh/nixing";
  inputs.brsvh.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

  # OPTIONAL use my cachix binary cache.
  nixConfig.extra-substituters = [ "https://brsvh.cachix.org" ];
  nixConfig.extra-trusted-public-keys = [ "brsvh.cachix.org-1:DqtlvqnpP9g39l8Eo74AXRftGx1KJLid/ViADTNgDNE="];
}

Then, import and use anything what you need.

{
  outputs.nixosConfiguraitons.YOUR-CONFIGURATION = inputs.nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
    system = "x86_64-linux";
    modules = [
      brsvh.nixosModules.fonts
      brsvh.nixosModules.tsangertype-fonts
      (
        { pkgs, ... }:
        {
          nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
          nixpkgs.overlays = [
              brsvh.overlays.emacs
              brsvh.overlays.proprius-fonts
              brsvh.overlays.unfree
            ];

          environment.systemPackageswith = with pkgs; [ wemeet ];

	  # This option from `brsvh.nixosModules.fonts`.
	  fonts.fontconfig.chinese.enable = true;

	  # This option from `brsvh.nixosModules.tsangertype-fonts`.
	  fonts.tsangertype-fonts.enable = true;
        }
      )
    ];
  };
}

License

Unless otherwise specified, all work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. You should have received a copy of it, see the COPYING file for more details. If you did not recive it, see http://www.wtfpl.net for more details.

Thanks

Thanks to these software in the Nix ecosystem.

• disko
• Hive
• NixOS hardware
• Standard
• colmena

Footnotes

1. What is dotfiles, https://dotfiles.github.io ↩