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Show new nix cli commands when profile is not used #191

Open Gerschtli opened 2 years ago

Gerschtli commented 2 years ago

Hey, in my environment I don't use nix-env or nix profile at all. Also I don't use channels so I would like to see the new nix cli commands with the nixpkgs registry name instead.

What do you think about an environment variable, a config value, or a dedicated nix package for new nix cli/flakes commands only?

Niols commented 1 year ago

I feel there are two requests in this issue:

  1. Be able to customize whether or not to show the nix-env or nix profile part of the help.
  2. Be able to customize whether to show nix-env/nix-shell hints or nix profile/nix run ones instead of relying on the script guessing from the filesystem.

Is that right? Personally, just like @Gerschtli, I'd got for no nix-env/nix profile part of the help, and only the nix run one, but it's probably not much harder to offer the choice!

srid commented 10 months ago

FWIW, the new cli commands are displayed if the user profile manifest exists. See https://nixos.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/413950-nix/topic/nix-index/near/416719968