Nix / NixOS @programming.dev fullovellas @lemm.ee 2w ago

Roast my system flake (please)

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I think it's about time I improved a bit on my Nix and NixOS knowledge, and I guess the best way is having someone more experienced critique my monstrosity of a setup.

Maybe it's too modular? Not modular enough? Convoluted? Complete garbage altogether?

Go to the repo and find out! Just be sure to let me know after.

nixos @lemmy.ml fullovellas @lemm.ee 2w ago

Roast my system flake (please)

github.com /FullOvellas/nix_config

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Includes Gnome

LOL, LMAO even.

(PS. since you said please. But I think it's cool. (I guess? I am too much of a grandpa to care so: That's lovely, my dear))
- It's a bit LMAO-worthy, yes. I have it mostly out fear some sofware might break on Hyprland at a bad time, and because I'm too lazy to look for some basic utilities separately.
  
  No I am in the same camp. I hate complexity. There's too many crumbs of utilities to reassemble into the entire loaf of functionality. Hence I haven't tried installing arch in a long while (I use endeavorOS as my daily) and I haven't tried running nix. The need has not arisen yet.
There ya go: https://github.com/FullOvellas/nix_config/issues/1
- I read your issue and you left some great advice. Thank you for taking the time to write something thoughtful! As you probably guessed I really had barely any idea of how the module system worked, but it's nice seeing it's a bit similar to Rust's. I will look into the switch script, which will be convenient, and apply your suggestions, since I basically agree with all of them 🙌
  
  🙌
- recursiveMerge
  
  Can you explain how you would use this here? Would this make files like this in my config unnecessary?
  
  I wasn't very clear in how I wrote those points, I think you got it backwards.
  
  My points was that OP was using recursiveMerge, and I think that is not a very common or useful pattern to follow, because you evade the module system, for no good reason(?).
  
  I think you are already following the most common pattern out there. If you would like to, there are ways to avoid having a default.nix file for each module, but in my opinion that only makes it harder for other people to understand your modules.

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