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Bookmark or Share- ruby - What is the meaning of *nix? - Stack OverflowA Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell.
- Nix overlays and override pattern - Stack OverflowAnd as Nix is a functional language you also don't have variables only bindings which you can shadow in a different scope. But that still doesn't explain how overlays achieve their "magic". Through ~/.config/nixpkgs I have configured a test overlay approximately like this:
- How to uninstall Nix - Stack OverflowSince then, Nix has started to support systemd unit installations and since Catalina, macOS installations have become more complex too. This answer is not official documentation. The "curl | sh" installer for Nix on Linux does not install the Nix daemon, so the only things to delete are /nix, the line in ~/.profile and ~/.nix-profile.
- When and how should default.nix, shell.nix and release.nix be used?80. First of all, default.nix and shell.nix have special meanings in Nix tool, but release.nix is a convenience one. Next, default.nix is used as a default file when running nix-build, and shell.nix is used as a default file when running nix-shell. Just like you said. Next, default.nix isn't used only for nix-build.
- Nix: Querying packages' packages - Stack OverflowWhen (like in your question), I'm looking for a non-top-level package, I use the auto-completion of nix repl. Run it with. nix repl '
'. Now type for instance coqPackages and use auto-complete to see all the available versions. Type coqPackages_8_6. and use auto-complete to see all the available packages in this set. 
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