Hi! I’m trying out Nix and I’m trying to set up and organize everything. Usually I put all my configs in a directory which is also a git repo and synced to my NAS, using the same subfolders they’d be in, and use GNU Stow to symlink the top-level folders (/dotfiles/home/ to /home/username/, /dotfiles/etc to /etc and /dotfiles/usr to /usr) and let it do its thing. Would it cause problems to also do that for configuration.nix?
On Arch I already had a /dotfiles/etc symlinked to /etc for my custom keyboard layouts, which worked fine… until the update which moved the location of the GUI keyboard layouts. It prevented the update so I undid the symlinks, updated, and put them again to the new location… but somehow it broke everything except the tty and no Wayland compositor I tried would work anymore (and there went my record of having never broken Arch since the first install over a year ago 😅 )
So I’m kinda wary of doing it on an even more critical file… but also I’m very lazy and having everything in a single repo is very convenient… How do you do it?
FYI – The reference to the flake doesn’t have to be a path, but can also point to git repositories. This let’s you do fun stuff like:
nixos-rebuild switch --flake github:myusername/mynixosrepoThe default fragment name used is the current hostname of the machine, so it can be omitted most of the time.
That’s actually pretty sick. I knew you could run things this way, but not rebuild