[Nix-dev] Configuration requests

2015-08-25 Thread Brian Jones
Coming from Gentoo, I understand about configurations. I'm trying out NixOS for two main reasons: 1. Compile source for audio programs. At this point, I'm not really into downloading binaries. 2. Lock down the OS so that it cannot update. Given this, can you please offer some examples for conf

[Nix-dev] Hydra custom package build, mkFakeDerivation and .override

2015-08-25 Thread Michael R
Folks, We set up a local hydra instance, and a custom set of packages as describe here: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/07/managing-private-nix-packages-outside.html We set up a jobset to build it ... and generate a channel. However there a marked difference in package generated by

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-08-25 Thread Spencer Whitt
All of the logos Tim has proposed look like clear improvements over the current one to me. I think we should just pick one and use it! There's no downside to adopting one of these logos, since they maintain the same basic design as the current one but with cleaner, modernized design. I think we sh

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-08-25 Thread stewart mackenzie
Personally I really like what the current logo communicates to me: * lambdas, lots of them * snowflake - a unique system I'm enjoying these logos! /sjm On 26 Aug 2015 00:16, "Cillian de Róiste" wrote: > Before updating the logo, I > wonder if we should step back a bit and think about what the

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-08-25 Thread Tim Cuthbertson
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Very interesting designs! There was some talk at FOSDEM this year > about brushing up the design/branding in general. I was really hoping > we could get a designer on board to help with that although it fell > through (but may

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-08-25 Thread Cillian de Róiste
Perhaps we should also have separate (but related) logos for each of the NixOS projects: Nix, NixOS, NixOps, etc. to help people understand how they fit together. 2015-08-25 18:16 GMT+02:00 Cillian de Róiste : > Hi Tim, > > Very interesting designs! There was some talk at FOSDEM this year > about

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-08-25 Thread Cillian de Róiste
Hi Tim, Very interesting designs! There was some talk at FOSDEM this year about brushing up the design/branding in general. I was really hoping we could get a designer on board to help with that although it fell through (but maybe you are a designer?). Before updating the logo, I wonder if we shou

[Nix-dev] What is the end game?

2015-08-25 Thread Daniel Peebles
Hi all, Let's say for a moment that Nix has taken over the world, and every open source project now includes a default.nix or release.nix in its repo root. What does nixpkgs look like in this world? Does it duplicate the individual package .nix files in their respective repositories? Does it only

Re: [Nix-dev] Can developers snail mail me the live CD?

2015-08-25 Thread zimbatm
Where about are you geographically speaking ? The CD still requires a lot of bandwidth during installation unfortunately. Is the limit on the phone monthly ? On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:54 Brian Jones wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to have the 64-bit graphical live cd > snail mailed to m