My Nix user-environment configuration
Your average nix user-environment is managed imperatively, by using
the nix-env command-line tool. This repository is an example of not
doing that, using my userEnv function from my
nix-extra repository.
This package allows you to build your user-environment declaratively,
and choose whether or not you want to be able to continue using
nix-env to manage it imperatively using the static argument.
Additionally, I configure emacs using my emacsWithConfig function,
and strive to configure all of my configuration-heavy packages using
wrappers like this. This is in contrast to the approach of managing
your home folder using nix used by tools like
home-manager.
I hope you find my config useful for inspiration on how you can manage your own!
To install my user environment (though I'm not sure why you'd want
to), use the ./switch-to-env script provided.
To revert to your previous user environment, run the command
nix-env --rollback