examples.nix

  # 5. example of multiple contents, emacs and vi happily coexisting                                                                                                               
  editors = buildImage {
    name = "editors";
    contents = [
      pkgs.coreutils
      pkgs.bash
      pkgs.emacs
      pkgs.vim
      pkgs.nano
    ];
  };

  # 5a. example of R                                                                                                                                                               
  rR = buildImage {
    name = "rR";
    contents = [
      pkgs.coreutils
      pkgs.bash
      # pkgs.R                                                                                                                                                                     
      # pkgs.rPackages.dplyr                                                                                                                                                       
    ];
  };

  # 6. nix example to play with the container nix store                                                                                                                            
  # docker run -it --rm nix nix-store -qR $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A nix)                                                                                                          
  nix = buildImageWithNixDb {
    name = "nix";
    tag = "latest";
    contents = [
      # nix-store uses cat program to display results as specified by                                                                                                              
      # the image env variable NIX_PAGER.                                                                                                                                          
      pkgs.coreutils
      pkgs.nix
    ];
    config = {
      Env = [ "NIX_PAGER=cat" ];
    };
  };