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Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
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How does devenv.yaml:allowUnfree and NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE work with nonfree packages? #1117

Closed SebastianCallh closed 1 month ago

SebastianCallh commented 1 month ago

Hi! Thank you for devenv, it is such a cool piece of software.

I have successfully used it with free languages, but I run into trouble when using terraform (adding it as a language in devenv.nix) due to their bsl license.

Upon entering the shell (with direnv) I am greeted with the classic "refused to evaluate due to license" Nix message. To address this I have tried to set allowUnfree = true in devenv.yaml, and NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 in my environment, but Nix still refuses to resolve.

It is my understanding that devenv might not run in --impure mode, which would explain why NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE does nothing, but since allowUnfree also doe nothing I am at a loss on how to proceed here and would greatly appreciate if you could shine some light on this.

domenkozar commented 1 month ago

Duplicates https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/1090