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This document contains some ideas for additions to the Nix language.
Motivation
The Nix package manager, Nixpkgs and NixOS currently have several
problems:
Poor discoverability of package options. Package functions have
function arguments like enableFoo, but there is no way for the Nix
UI to discover them, let alone to provide programmatic ways to
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There a times when you need to build something from the nix unstable channel. For example the master contains a new package you need, but the next nixpkgs release is somewhere in the future, and you need this package now. In this guide I want to show how to install packages from unstable by using nix-env. Furthermore I hope to give a basic understanding of the channels concept.
What are nix channels?
A channel is a set of expressions which includes severall build, installation and configuration instructions for packages, services and the system itself. The repository normaly used here is nixpkgs. It is developed at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.
What is the nix unstable channel?
The unstable channel is a copy of the NixOS/nixpkgs master. It is pulled from github once in a while and will be available from a mirror under https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable. Since NixOS uses half-anual released stable channels, some changes (especially new f
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