Hi list, I have experimented many issues that may require a kind of $HOME configuration. Many package provide a /etc which contains a default resource script which is often used as a base for the system. As Nix packages are pure, the system configuration is not changed unless this packages are installed with the system (I guess). Therefore if any user install a tool which require a minimal configuration the tool will not work properly.
Packages can provide a script that will be used to configure the $HOME directory of the current user if no configuration files exists yet. This can be used to create a nice default configurations which can be generated and updated with the corresponding package. With this feature, I think we can expect to move upstart & configuration script inside nixpkgs instead of nixos. Stupid question: can any user install and configure the following servers in user land: apache, sshd, subversion, xserver, etc ..? I was thinking about that after running "wmii" which was not able to act on any event (which is quite bad for a windows manager) because the default configuration was not available. -- Nicolas Pierron - If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once. - Do not print documents, save your printer ;) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
