From c12f3983f51f6c2f731394180e45fd8b41f5087a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 22:18:22 +0000
Subject: Adding docs explaining how to use the nix build system

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 README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47754d1..cad58e3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -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
 
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