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Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs
As we are working towards Nix 3.0 we want to make sure that we make a
huge step forward in Nix's user experience. And once 3.0 is out of the
door we need to make sure that all future commands and features keep up
the standard of user experience.

This PR adds a CLI guideline document to the Nix documentation. Consider
this document a good starting point and a checklist when somebody will
be (re)implementing commands.

Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
.github Bump cachix/install-nix-action from v11 to v12 (#4237) 2020-11-09 23:21:55 +00:00
config update config/config.{sub,guess} 2018-08-13 20:00:17 +00:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs fix typo in comment in fetchurl.nix 2020-11-18 11:20:50 +07:00
doc/manual Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs 2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add some missing clean-files 2020-10-18 20:32:59 +02:00
mk Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
nix-rust rust: small patches 2020-10-08 13:40:47 +02:00
perl Return signatures in Perl path info 2020-11-21 22:06:15 +00:00
scripts installer: simplify the per-build installation 2020-11-21 19:56:46 +01:00
src Merge pull request #4284 from tweag/fixed-output-depending-on-ca 2020-12-01 20:25:41 +01:00
tests Merge pull request #4284 from tweag/fixed-output-depending-on-ca 2020-12-01 20:25:41 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Update .gitignore 2020-10-18 20:32:46 +02:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2020-10-18 21:20:35 +02:00
flake.nix installer: simplify the per-build installation 2020-11-21 19:56:46 +01:00
local.mk mk/precompiled-headers.mk: Remove special handling for clang 2020-10-06 13:27:09 +02:00
Makefile Disable FORTIFY_SOURCE when compiling without optims 2020-09-22 10:04:25 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Fix a typo (#4073) 2020-09-26 11:33:04 +00:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.