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Thanks for mentioning nix. I didn't know it had a macOS variant. I've been meaning to learn the whole nix ecosystem but hadn't found the energy yet.
by b0afc375b5 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning nix. I didn't know it had a macOS variant. I've been meaning to learn the whole nix ecosystem but hadn't found the energy yet.
- sheenobu 5y agoNix pills might be a good start if you want to understand how all the pieces fit together. https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills. There is nix, the language/package manager which can be used standalone; nixpkgs, the ports or homebrew like repo of packages that can be built/run on many systems including macOS; and nixos, the Linux+Nix distro that puts it all together.
- b0afc375b5 5y agoThanks. I've already installed nix/nix-darwin and tried installing wireshark, but it isn't working for some reason. I have some reading to do.