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nix: Make all options available as flags
Thus, instead of ‘--option <name> <value>’, you can write ‘--<name>
<value>’. So

  --option http-connections 100

becomes

  --http-connections 100

Apart from brevity, the difference is that it's not an error to set a
non-existent option via --option, but unrecognized arguments are
fatal.

Boolean options have special treatment: they're mapped to the
argument-less flags ‘--<name>’ and ‘--no-<name>’. E.g.

  --option auto-optimise-store false

becomes

  --no-auto-optimise-store
2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
doc/manual Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1 2017-05-29 11:32:06 +02:00
maintainers Update upload-release script 2017-01-03 11:42:56 +01:00
misc Figure out the user's home directory if $HOME is not set 2017-05-05 17:08:23 +02:00
mk set _GNU_SOURCE on cygwin 2017-04-21 11:27:27 -03:00
perl perl-bindings: Remove unused --with-store-dir flag 2017-05-03 17:43:52 +02:00
scripts nix-profile.sh: remove sbin from PATH 2017-05-07 07:41:19 +01:00
src nix: Make all options available as flags 2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
tests Add test for setuid seccomp filter 2017-05-29 16:14:10 +02:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el for Emacs 2016-01-28 11:12:04 +01:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Always use the Darwin sandbox 2017-06-06 18:44:49 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Add a seccomp filter to prevent creating setuid/setgid binaries 2017-05-29 16:14:10 +02:00
COPYING
local.mk Shut up some warnings 2017-04-14 14:42:20 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Add --with-sandbox-shell configure flag 2017-05-15 17:36:32 +02:00
nix.spec.in RPM, Deb: Add dependency on libseccomp 2017-06-01 14:28:21 +02:00
README.md Fix minor grammatical nitpick ("it's" vs. "its") in README.md. 2017-03-22 10:11:23 -04:00
release-common.nix Only pass --with-sandbox-shell on Linux 2017-05-30 15:56:15 +02:00
release.nix Fix coverage job 2017-06-01 14:43:15 +02:00
shell.nix Add a seccomp filter to prevent creating setuid/setgid binaries 2017-05-29 16:14:10 +02:00
version Bump 2016-01-20 16:34:37 +01:00

Nix, the purely functional package manager

Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.

To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.

Contributing

Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.