howdy, i have a flake i use for a devShell containing dotnet, nuget, and omnisharp, and i'm wondering how i can prevent these dependencies from clogging up $HOME. here's my flake:

  description = "Basic dotnet dev environment";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, flake-utils, ... }:
    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem
      (system:
        let
          pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
          omnisharp = pkgs.omnisharp-roslyn;

          # nvimrc = ...;
        in
        {
          # Used by `nix develop`
          devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
            buildInputs = with pkgs; [
              #basics
              dotnet-sdk
              dotnet-runtime
              #packages
              dotnetPackages.Nuget #install nuget declaratively

              #unit testing
              dotnetPackages.NUnit
              dotnetPackages.NUnitRunners

              #language server of choice
              omnisharp-roslyn
            ];

           # My attempts at decluttering HOME

            DOTNET_ROOT = "\${XDG_DATA_HOME}/dotnet";
            DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT = 1;
            DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE = "true";

            shellHook = ''
              echo '${nvimrc}' > .nvimrc.lua
              export NUGET_PACKAGES=$XDG_DATA_HOME/nuget
              export OMNISHARPHOME=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/omnisharp
            '';
          };
        }
      );
}

one thing i've been suggested is to use https://github.com/queer/boxxy, which i'm not against, but i would prefer something native to Nix. supposedly i can fiddle with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to recreate what boxxy does, but i don't know anything about what to do. any pointers?

In reply to @bendlas:matrix.org
and if I do, it would read <nixpkgs-overlay> as well as NIXPKGS_CONFIG, in order to configure nixpkgs. And how would I best configure that with flake-based nixos config?

In reply to @bendlas:matrix.org
and if I do, it would read <nixpkgs-overlay> as well as NIXPKGS_CONFIG, in order to configure nixpkgs. And how would I best configure that with flake-based nixos config?

In reply to @bendlas:matrix.org
Particularly, how would I best make it so that it takes the same configs and overlays, as configured through nixos modules? The wiki section I referenced, has stub files that do import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}, but that doesn't work so well with flakes ...

In reply to @bendlas:matrix.org
Particularly, how would I best make it so that it takes the same configs and overlays, as configured through nixos modules? The wiki section I referenced, has stub files that do import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}, but that doesn't work so well with flakes ...