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Welcome to a development environment using Nix; specifically with HomeManager.

Nix

Nix is a totally different way of managing packages & dependencies on your machine from all other package managers: homebrew, apt, yum etc..

If you want the official explanation on what Nix does better please read why you should give it a try.

Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built. - About Nix

Getting Started

You can git clone this repository wherever you'd like!

$ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
$ nix-channel --update
# add to your shell startup
$ export NIX_PATH=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels${NIX_PATH:+:$NIX_PATH}
$ nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

Backup Files

Athough this tool will try it's best not to clobber any files outside it's management; it's best just to backup any files before on-boarding.

mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.bak
mv ~/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig.bak
mv ~/.p10k.zsh ~/.p10k.zsh.bak
mv ~/.rbenv ~/.rbenv.bak
mv ~/.config/htop/htoprc ~/.config/htop/htoprc.bak
mv ~/.ssh/config ~/.ssh/config.bak
mv ~/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf.bak
mv ~/.tmux.conf.local ~/.tmux.conf.local.bak
mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc.bak

Updating

Subsequent updating to the repository can be reflected in your system by simply running ./bin/switch

Uninstall

You can uninstall by running:

# remove the . "$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" line in your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile
rm -rf $HOME/{.nix-channels,.nix-defexpr,.nix-profile,.config/nixpkgs}
rm -rf /nix

Don't forget to move back all your backup dotfiles!