A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
https://lix.systems
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Share evaluation caches across installables
Before:
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/nix && time -f '%E' nix build --dry-run \
'nixpkgs#hello' \
'nixpkgs#clang' \
'nixpkgs#cargo' \
'nixpkgs#rustup' \
'nixpkgs#bear' \
'nixpkgs#firefox' \
'nixpkgs#git-revise' \
'nixpkgs#hyperfine' \
'nixpkgs#curlie' \
'nixpkgs#xz' \
'nixpkgs#ripgrep'
0:03.61
After:
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/nix && time -f '%E' nix build --dry-run \
'nixpkgs#hello' \
'nixpkgs#clang' \
'nixpkgs#cargo' \
'nixpkgs#rustup' \
'nixpkgs#bear' \
'nixpkgs#firefox' \
'nixpkgs#git-revise' \
'nixpkgs#hyperfine' \
'nixpkgs#curlie' \
'nixpkgs#xz' \
'nixpkgs#ripgrep'
0:01.46
This could probably use a more proper benchmark...
Fixes #313
(cherry picked from commit de51e5c335865e3e0a8cccd283fec1a52cce243f)
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| bench | ||
| clang-tidy | ||
| contrib | ||
| doc | ||
| lix-doc | ||
| maintainers | ||
| meson | ||
| misc | ||
| nix-support | ||
| perl | ||
| releng | ||
| scripts | ||
| src | ||
| subprojects/aws_sdk | ||
| tests | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .clang-tidy | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .envrc | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff | ||
| CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
| COPYING | ||
| default.nix | ||
| docker.nix | ||
| flake.lock | ||
| flake.nix | ||
| justfile | ||
| meson.build | ||
| meson.options | ||
| package.nix | ||
| README.md | ||
| shell.nix | ||
| treefmt.toml | ||
| version.json | ||
Lix
Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
Read more about us at https://lix.systems.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install
For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.
Additional Resources
License
Lix is released under the LGPL v2.1.