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| author | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-01-06 22:18:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-01-08 19:59:22 +0000 |
| commit | c12f3983f51f6c2f731394180e45fd8b41f5087a (patch) | |
| tree | 6aa11f7f5740552c826b6b259f17f8c32498c491 | |
| parent | 7a224bb356b2d8f5a049915a14993ccfafddfc45 (diff) | |
Adding docs explaining how to use the nix build system
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 21 |
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@@ -25,6 +25,27 @@ Currently dev-suite has two tools: #### Linux - git +#### With nix + +Optionally, if you're using on operating system that supports [nix], +the functional package manager (Linux, MacOS), you can use the +provided nix files to get all required dependencies. + +The provided setup uses [direnv] and [lorri] to automatically build +the dependencies and provides them in your environment. + +[nix]: https://nixos.org/nix/ +[direnv]: https://direnv.net/ +[lorri]: https://github.com/target/lorri + +``` +$ direnv allow +$ lorri daemon # this blocks by default +``` + +Then, whenever you change into the directory tree, your environment +get's updated with the latest version that was built by the daemon. + #### Windows - git for Windows installed to the default path for hooked to work |