Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-10 Thread Gergö Barany
Thanks to everyone for their helpful answers! Very nice community :-) On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 20:07:28 +0200, Domen Kožar wrote: > Try nixpkgs.config.clementine.spotify = false; Thanks to everyone who pointed that out. It doesn't work for me on the 14.04 branch, but I'll believe everyone that it

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > On 09/09/2014 06:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > [...] > > > > When running "nixos-rebuild build" on this, it failed with: > > error: cannot coerce a set to a string, at > /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixo

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
:-) Three independent parallel answers. I should have checked before sending. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi, I address some of the issues you wrote: On 09/09/2014 07:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: - I found it puzzling that the package channel is to be set imperatively on the command line rather than in the configuration file. This breaks the nice property of the entire configuration being in one

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/09/2014 07:16 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > On 09/09/2014 06:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently >> tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for "fun" >> and some software development

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/09/2014 06:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: > Hi everyone, > > this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently > tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for "fun" > and some software development, but not a server). I ended up not using NixOS > for v

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Domen Kožar
Hey Gergö, So, here goes. First some very minor comments on the website and the manual, > then more serious issues I ran into when trying (and failing) to install > some packages I wanted. > Thanks for feedback! > Website and the manual: > > - I found it confusing that the manual talks about ad

[Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Gergö Barany
Hi everyone, this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for "fun" and some software development, but not a server). I ended up not using NixOS for various reasons; I'm trying to give useful feedback, and