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nix modules for darwin
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Tracking issue for improving uninstalling #730

Open emilazy opened 1 year ago

emilazy commented 1 year ago

Just off the top of my head:

Enzime commented 1 year ago

I've fixed /Applications/Nix Apps not getting deleted in #687.

As opposed to the installer, I think uninstalling a flake-based system can be handled by the darwin-uninstaller, need to investigate further into any additional flake-specific logic that needs to be added.

emilazy commented 1 year ago

I've fixed /Applications/Nix Apps not getting deleted in #687.

That's what confuses me: I was using that version (nix run github:Enzime/...).

Enzime commented 1 year ago

I believe the uninstaller is not unloading launchd daemons before deleting the files, need to check this further.

zdcthomas commented 5 months ago

I thought I'd call this out here too, there's a small bootstrapping issue with the uninstaller being a derivation that has to be built to be run. If someone has any issues actually running nix, and they want to uninstall nix-darwin to get back to a clean state, they can't easily do that right now, since the docs recommend running from the derivation

Enzime commented 5 months ago

Some progress was made on this as of #806 as the uninstaller is now installed by default on all nix-darwin systems, accessible through darwin-uninstaller, so it no longer needs to be built, however I believe the uninstaller still depends on Nix.

The documentation should probably be updated to recommend running the uninstaller from $PATH

Enzime commented 3 days ago

Another thing to consider is what we want to do with users and groups created or managed by nix-darwin