-
nix-channel
and~/.nix-defexpr
are gone. We'll use$NIX_PATH
(or user environment specific overrides configured vianix set-path
) to look up packages. Since$NIX_PATH
supports URLs nowadays, this removes the need for channels: you can just set$NIX_PATH
to e.g.https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-15.09/nixexprs.tar.xz
and stay up to date automatically. -
By default, packages are selected by attribute name, rather than the
name
attribute. Thusnix install hello
is basically equivalent tonix-env -iA hello
. The attribute name is recorded in the user environment manifest and used in upgrades. Thus (at least by default)hello
won't be upgraded tohelloVariant
.@vcunat suggested making this an arbitrary Nix expression rather than an attrpath, e.g.
firefox.override { enableFoo = true; }
. However, such an expression would not have a key in the user environment, unlike an attrpath. Better to require an explicit flag for this.
TBD: How to deal with search path clashes.