[Nix-dev] Please star the nixpkgs repo

2014-10-28 Thread Wout Mertens
I just noticed that https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs has more forks than stars. Stars are a merit indicator on github - more stars means more popular, more eyeballs, more users etc. So I think we should all be making sure we starred https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs . Wout.

Re: [Nix-dev] Reengineered npm2nix: call for feedback

2014-10-28 Thread Colin Putney
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Sander van der Burg svanderb...@gmail.com wrote: I think the problem with relative paths is solved now. Now the directory in which the package.json file resides is also taking into account in the generation process. I tested it against a simple custom-made

[Nix-dev] nix-multi-user installation script

2014-10-28 Thread Andreas Herrmann
Hello everyone, in the past two weeks or so I have been experimenting with Nix multi-user mode. My goal was to be able to reliably install Nix in multi-user mode on a CentOS 6.5 machine. The result of this was a bash script which pretty much automates the whole process [1]. The script is

[Nix-dev] XMonad and Taffybar on nixos

2014-10-28 Thread Richard Wallace
Hello, Is anyone using xmonad and taffybar on nixos? I'm trying to, but I'm running into an issue with xmonad not being able to find modules provided by taffybar. Trying compile xmonad results in Could not find module: System.Taffybar.Hooks.PagerHints I set up xmonad as described on the NixOS

Re: [Nix-dev] XMonad and Taffybar on nixos

2014-10-28 Thread Ryan Trinkle
The easiest way I've found to do (possibly complex) dependencies for xmonad is to add a default.nix to my ~/.xmonad directory and then add this keybinding to xmonad: ((mod4Mask, xK_q), spawn cd ~/.xmonad ; nix-shell --pure --command 'ghc --make xmonad.hs -i -ilib -fforce-recomp -v0 -o