Add a README section on Nix #26
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Thanks for adding this @lrworth! |
| There are many ways to run `unused` with Nix, but the simplest is: | ||
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| nix run -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixpkgs-unstable.zip unused -c unused --help |
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This should probably be nix-shell.
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Ah. I don't know how to do the same with nix-shell, could you please translate?
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nix-shell -p unused --run unused --help
If you just do nix-shell -p unused it opens a bash shell with unused in your PATH.
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That brings up the man page for nix-shell, and
nix-shell -p unused --run 'unused --help'
gives me
error: undefined variable 'unused' at (string):1:94
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
Is there a nix-shell one-liner to launch unused without manipulating channels? Note we are aiming for the simplest method here — everyone is going to have their own preferred way to use it.
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Forgot the quotes.
Works for me:
nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixpkgs-unstable.tar.gz -p unused --run 'unused --help'
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Thanks! I'll make another PR I guess.
There are many ways someone could use the expression in nixpkgs, so I've chosen the simplest possible thing to do: just run
unused. I hope this provides enough information for someone to use nix-channel and nix-env, or home-manager, or configuration.nix, or their own expression, etc.