• Vincent Adultman@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s my goal. When I tried NixOS 3 years ago I didn’t had time and there was a lack of documentation to make a .nix for missing packages. Community was… something not very welcoming. I will try again during college break.

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      7 months ago

      Well documentation is still not great. But I can deal with it.

      The first step is to really understand how nix works and how nix-shell -p works.

      Then probably know that autoPatchelfHook exists

      And sth. You have to watch out for if you install sth. With a daemon or a service you need to enable it additionally to the installation.

      So for example for open-iscsi you need to enable the service.open-iscsi = enable so it can work.

      Flakes are still a nogo for me. I don’t understand them and I don’t want to deal with them until I get the rest into my head.