| 27 Jan 2026 |
 vczf | I don’t need it except occasionally. I use comma instead of nix run and , -s nix shell | 09:47:12 |
| vczf | * I don’t need it except occasionally. I use comma instead of nix run and , -s rather than nix shell | 09:47:25 |
| vczf | My biggest lifesaver with this config so far is DankMaterialShell being upstreamed into nixpkgs. Not sure if I’d have been able to figure out how to integrate their flake into my config | 09:50:22 |
 neobrain | that's the nix-command feature, not flakes. Enabling either feature doesn't disable the "old" interfaces afaik. but whatever works for you :) | 09:52:22 |
| vczf | You need flakes enabled in order to nix run nixpkgs#cowsay hello
Unless I am mistaken, that nixpkgs is a reference to the system flake registry entry for nixpkgs | 10:01:38 |
| neobrain | right | 10:29:26 |
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 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | is there something like flakes but using npins? | 13:42:21 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | near how it works but standard | 13:42:28 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | and which doesnt break every second like flakes does | 13:42:38 |
 K900 | Well it depends on which part of flakes | 13:43:45 |
| K900 | https://git.afnix.fr/sprinkles/sprinkles handles the "standardized output schema" bit but it's far less widely adopted | 13:44:05 |
 delroth | it's definitely a standard if you count something not stable and used by < 10 projects as a standard | 13:52:40 |
| delroth | I think there are ad-hoc default.nix templates that are more standard than sprinkles | 13:52:51 |
| 13 May 2024 |
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 mjm | lix is now in nixos-unstable, what's the best way to use it in a NixOS config? | 15:47:41 |
| K900 | nix.package = pkgs.lix | 15:47:54 |
| K900 | Probably | 15:47:58 |
| K900 | Or just keep using the module | 15:48:02 |
 puck | you can use nix.package = pkgs.lix; if you want; but using the overlay will guarantee more updates (tho less binary cache) | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | well, the module/overlay doesn't easily support using the one from nixpkgs | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | i do want more binary cache | 15:49:21 |
| mjm | yeah i guess i'll just do nix.package then | 15:50:43 |
 raitobezarius | to have binary cache and HEAD, we will probably need to track the channels and bolt a lix on there and rebuild with our own CI then push in our binary cache | 17:33:17 |
 Charles | What's lix using as its binary cache? Attic? | 17:34:36 |
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 @tc424:glasgow.social | Last I heard they were using garage as the back end, and think about attic | 17:39:11 |
| @tc424:glasgow.social | I don't know if that means they're just pushing directly into garage's s3 interface for the moment | 17:39:36 |
