NixUP – State and Future of a Nix-Managed User Profile by Thomas Strobel (NixCon 2017)
Channel: NixCon
Date: 2017-10-30

Nix User Profile (NixUP) should have been a declarative configuration for the user environment [1]. By now similar solutions have emerged, like nix-home [2] or home-manager [3]. In this talk the different approaches will be reviewed and an update on the state and future of NixUP will be given. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 [2] https://github.com/sheenobu/nix-home [3] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager