Hi All, While my little Home Manager project has been online at
https://github.com/rycee/home-manager since January I haven't really mentioned it much. Although it is far from complete, I now feel sufficiently confident about its stability and usefulness to announce it to the wider community. In short Home Manager is a set of NixOS modules and a command line tool called `home-manager` that lets you configure your user's environment similar to how you configure your NixOS system. Since Home Manager uses the NixOS module system under the hood and therefore supports the nice things the modules bring, in particular type checking, automatic man page generation, and merging configurations using the `imports` field. It is quite similar to nixuser [1] in scope and implementation but differs in some crucial ways, most notably Home Manager lives in a separate repository from Nixpkgs which I hope makes it easier to get started. It also works under NixOS 17.03 (which is the version I mostly use) and to some extent also other Linux distros and even macOS. Though I have personally only ever used it under NixOS. A simple Home Manager configuration may look something like { pkgs, ... }: { home.packages = [ pkgs.htop pkgs.fortune ]; programs.emacs = { enable = true; extraPackages = epkgs: [ epkgs.nix-mode epkgs.magit ]; }; programs.firefox = { enable = true; enableAdobeFlash = true; }; services.gpg-agent = { enable = true; defaultCacheTtl = 1800; enableSshSupport = true; }; } I have also written a more elaborate description of the project on my website which you can reach at https://rycee.net/posts/2017-07-02-manage-your-home-with-nix.html Please have a look and give Home Manager a try if you are feeling adventurous. Feedback is most welcome! /rycee [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
