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I just gave nix a go and so far it seems great. But do you know, if they’re a nicer options finder? The one I found where you just search all several thousand

by wredue 3y ago

I just gave nix a go and so far it seems great. But do you know, if they’re a nicer options finder? The one I found where you just search all several thousand options kinda sucks. I want to just see my package (say, ssh) and just the ssh options, but the results get littered with irrelevancy.

evgpbfhnr 3y ago
When I roughly know what I'm doing I use search.nixos.org; if you give it the full services.foo prefix it's usually relevant enough, e.g. for ssh you'd want "services.openssh", which you can find skimming through the results of just searching 'ssh' first: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=services.openssh https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&siz... For anything I'm not 100% sure will be obvious I search through a local clone of the nixpkgs repo directly, but I'll be honest and say I just never took time to search for a better tool
JasonSage 3y ago
My main usage of Nix is on non-NixOS machines, and I use Home Manager, and while it has a similar problem, just searching the options in the packages it provides configuration for is a smaller issue. Not sure if this helps you at all or not, it really depends on your usage of Nix, but for managing user configuration I do recommend Home Manager.
smoldesu 3y ago
> if they’re a nicer options finder? https://mynixos.com/ https://mynixos.com/ > I want to just see my package (say, ssh) and just the ssh options https://mynixos.com/nixpkgs/options/programs.ssh https://mynixos.com/nixpkgs/options/programs.ssh
licebmi__at__ 3y ago
I would suggest using man and searching like any piece of documentation. Specifically you are looking for `man configuration.nix`
- SuperSandro2000 3y ago
  That's actually worse search experience and slower because less is struggling with the amount of lines.
lillecarl 3y ago
https://mynixos.com/ https://mynixos.com/
bembo 3y ago
I found this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/mlvzk/manix https://github.com/mlvzk/manix

by wredue 3y ago

evgpbfhnr 3y ago

When I roughly know what I'm doing I use search.nixos.org; if you give it the full services.foo prefix it's usually relevant enough, e.g. for ssh you'd want "services.openssh", which you can find skimming through the results of just searching 'ssh' first: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=services.openssh https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&siz... For anything I'm not 100% sure will be obvious I search through a local clone of the nixpkgs repo directly, but I'll be honest and say I just never took time to search for a better tool

JasonSage 3y ago

My main usage of Nix is on non-NixOS machines, and I use Home Manager, and while it has a similar problem, just searching the options in the packages it provides configuration for is a smaller issue. Not sure if this helps you at all or not, it really depends on your usage of Nix, but for managing user configuration I do recommend Home Manager.

smoldesu 3y ago

> if they’re a nicer options finder? https://mynixos.com/ https://mynixos.com/ > I want to just see my package (say, ssh) and just the ssh options https://mynixos.com/nixpkgs/options/programs.ssh https://mynixos.com/nixpkgs/options/programs.ssh

licebmi__at__ 3y ago

I would suggest using man and searching like any piece of documentation. Specifically you are looking for `man configuration.nix`

SuperSandro2000 3y ago
That's actually worse search experience and slower because less is struggling with the amount of lines.

lillecarl 3y ago

https://mynixos.com/ https://mynixos.com/

bembo 3y ago

I found this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/mlvzk/manix https://github.com/mlvzk/manix