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Introduction

Nixflk is a template which grants a simple way to use, deploy and manage NixOS systems for personal and productive use. It does this by providing a sane repository structure, integrating several popular projects like home-manager, setting clear guidelines, offering useful conveniences, and eliminating boilerplate so you can focus on deploying your systems.

Community Profiles

There are two branches from which to choose: core and community. The community branch builds on core and includes several ready-made profiles for discretionary use.

Every package and NixOS profile declared in community is uploaded to cachix, so everything provided is available without building anything. This is especially useful for the packages that are overridden from master, as without the cache, rebuilds are quite frequent.

⚠ Advisory

Nixflk leverages the flakes feature available via an experimental branch of nix. Until nix 3.0 is released, this project should be considered unstable.

License

Nixflk is licensed under the MIT License.