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Eelco Dolstra 87b82db881 nix profile list: Improve readability of the output
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Examples

  • Show what packages are installed in the default profile:

    # nix profile list
Index:              0
Flake attribute:    legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.gdb
Original flake URL: flake:nixpkgs
Locked flake URL:   github:NixOS/nixpkgs/7b38b03d76ab71bdc8dc325e3f6338d984cc35ca
Store paths:        /nix/store/indzcw5wvlhx6vwk7k4iq29q15chvr3d-gdb-11.1

Index:              1
Flake attribute:    packages.x86_64-linux.default
Original flake URL: flake:blender-bin
Locked flake URL:   github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender
Store paths:        /nix/store/i798sxl3j40wpdi1rgf391id1b5klw7g-blender-bin-3.1.2

    Note that you can unambiguously rebuild a package from a profile through its locked flake URL and flake attribute, e.g.

    # nix build github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender#packages.x86_64-linux.default

    will build the package with index 1 shown above.

Description

This command shows what packages are currently installed in a profile. For each installed package, it shows the following information:

  • Index: An integer that can be used to unambiguously identify the package in invocations of nix profile remove and nix profile upgrade.

  • Flake attribute: The flake output attribute path that provides the package (e.g. packages.x86_64-linux.hello).

  • Original flake URL: The original ("unlocked") flake reference specified by the user when the package was first installed via nix profile install.

  • Locked flake URL: The locked flake reference to which the original flake reference was resolved.

  • Store paths: The store path(s) of the package.

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