symlink dotfiles rather than using home manager

jakeisnt / nixcfg

A modular, Wayland-enabled NixOS configuration.

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symlink dotfiles rather than using home manager #173

Closed jakeisnt closed 2 years ago

jakeisnt commented 3 years ago

i think mic92 is doing this already but not certain allows me to modify the file on the fly rather than having to rebuild nix every time doesn't require nixos rebuild much faster config file iteration

cons:

less 'airtight' reproducibility (harder to determine what change did what and to restore previous versions)
have to add extra build step to nix derivation to enable the same single command rebuild we had before

jakeisnt commented 2 years ago

i don't like having to add the extra step, and it's harder to guarantee reproducibility. i was using config files incorrectly - do not iterate on them in the config/ dir