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Something Nix seriously needs is a searchable index of people's nix configs. When I attempted to use it, I had tabs open for around 10 configs that I was cross

by epage 5y ago

Something Nix seriously needs is a searchable index of people's nix configs. When I attempted to use it, I had tabs open for around 10 configs that I was cross referencing but I can't find that list of configs anymore and I have more obscure packages I'm trying to figure out how to use and don't want to manually search. This is on top of a GUI (syncs with git repos, at minimum about:config like with the documentation inline and ability to edit free-form entries), a Nix-style installer (pulls your config from a git host, inline machine profile editor, formatting help and saves formatting to repo), maybe some languages improvements, etc

42642626 5y ago
https://pastebin.com/raw/RkZvsKuL https://pastebin.com/raw/RkZvsKuL This is my current list. I add them as a submodule to a repo. ag -A10 'inputs' -G flake.nix
- benreesman 5y ago
  That is absolutely fantastic. Have you thought about putting that somewhere it will rank on Gooogle?
  - 42642626 5y ago
    It's just a local repo. I update it before I do a search. Everytime I find another interesting nix repo I add it.
  - simon04 5y ago
    A searchable nix config index would be easy to setup using https://github.com/hound-search/hound https://github.com/hound-search/hound
- cies 5y ago
  using it already! quidome/nixos-config is no longer available though. but as others said, a repo aggregator like dockerhub for nix configs'd be great awesome (not saying you should make it or anyihign)