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madjar / nox

Tools to make nix nicer to use
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Nox does not update NixOS package system config? #23

Closed Trevoke closed 9 years ago

Trevoke commented 9 years ago

For some reason I expected Nox to update the package config, but it doesn't. Does it make sense for Nox to do that, and can I request that as a new feature?

madjar commented 9 years ago

Nox only handles the user-specific packages, like nix-env does (it is little more than a nix-env wrapper, actually).

You can of course request that as a new feature, but it's a big one, because that requires parsing and rewriting the configuration.nix, which is no small task. It's is unlikely I'll implement it anytime soon.

Trevoke commented 9 years ago

Oh, then I misunderstood nox's purpose (and Nix's behavior). Thanks for explaining it!