Mastodawn

I need Nix Home Manger advice… What packages do you generally add to you nix configuration vs. using your native package manager?

My current thinking is…
- Dev related packages = home-manager
- Packages that need global access, and packages that are utilities = apt/brew/yum, etc.
- Packages, like graphic utilities load via nix-shell when needed.

What's the best strategy?

#nix #homemanager

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Sandro

@calligraffiti I used home-manager wherever possible as the goal was to make nix the native package manager.

Also the other distro was quite often either missing the packages or in versions behind.

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calligraffiti Jan 19

@sandro that’s certainly was the goal. I just keep running into stability issues certain packages. Particularly with those lightweight desktop apps, like Shotwell for example. And because I don’t need any special setting carried over it just seems easier. I imagine if I could write a module just to load such packages?