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author | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2019-10-05 22:42:42 +0000 |
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committer | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2019-10-05 22:44:50 +0000 |
commit | 73d865b1dae7585d0eff167271dabe77c9d0b8e6 (patch) | |
tree | 337324fab29014f3d60a8bff4979e397fb556d88 /pkgs/development/python-modules/yolk | |
parent | 670a2de0037acadb83433165344710dd3ac03adf (diff) | |
parent | e14d8e29606feddb29d7c27ea62dd514ef80f1e4 (diff) |
Replacing nixcfg with libkookierebuild
Generally, nixcfg grew out of a dotfiles repository, that happened to
also have some scripts in it. As more and more of the configuration
was replaced with nix specifics (home-manager, etc...), so did nixcfg
change over time (previously "stuff").
As part of this, kookiepkgs was introduced along-side nixcfg, to make
it easier to add custom things to nixpkgs-based systems
(NixOS). Additionally, the core system configuration was handled via
private infrastructure repositories, each specific to the machine in
question.
The problem with this approach is a lot of redundancy when building
non-userspace (read home-manager) systems and a lot of chaos with
having to cherry-pick commits from different branches to work with
nixpkgs trees in development.
Ultimately, keeping both new package definitions, patches and
configuration for the root system and userspace (home-manager) in the
same repository is a _much_ better approach to solving these issues.
And as such, libkookie was started: the general idea is that it
includes all nix expressions that are relevant to _any_ of my
computers. Under `roots`, a machine can have it's primary
configuration file which is built andcopied into the nix store, so
that nixpkgs can always point at the version a generation was built
with, not what is on disk).
Overlays contains everything that kookiepkgs used to, modules contains
both system-level modules (only required on NixOS), as well as
anything that is being built with home-manager. Modules are all kept
in the same tree, however some require system-level access while
others don't. There could be some kind of list to distinguish the two,
so that userspace-only systems can still take advantage of libkookie.
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