I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
`nix run nixpkgs#pkgx -- ...` :D ?
Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
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Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#12I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Because I don't want to learn another complex DSL just to install some packages. Whether Nix is the promised land or not, Brew works just fine 99% of the time and I have stuff to do.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#13I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Probably the EVE Online-like learning curve.
The docs could be better, but it's as easy as:
1. Install Nix from https://nixos.org/download.html
2. Find the package from https://search.nixos.org/packages
3. Start a shell with `nix-shell -p `, have the package available in it
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#14I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Because I don't want to learn another complex DSL just to install some packages. Whether Nix is the promised land or not, Brew works just fine 99% of the time and I have stuff to do.
Me, too, and also I already have a bunch of brew packages which I know are well maintained. So, switch to using both? Uninstall brew packages and install nix versions, verifying they are all maintained over there?
Sorry, no.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#15I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Bevause nix is complex. I don't want a complex system, I want a simple system.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#16I literally don't understand the first example. What just happened here? Did pkgx see that I failed to run bun and then just like... installed it and ran it for me? Does that mean on my next prompt I should run `bun` or should I run `pkgx` again?
$ bun
command not found: bun
^^ type `pkgx` to run that
$ pkgx
running `bun`…
Bun: a fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler and test runner.
# …Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#17I literally don't understand the first example. What just happened here? Did pkgx see that I failed to run bun and then just like... installed it and ran it for me? Does that mean on my next prompt I should run `bun` or should I run `pkgx` again? $ bun command not found: bun ^^ type `pkgx` to run that $ pkgx running `bun`… Bun: a fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler and test runner. # …
Based on the examples that follow, it seems like pkgx tracks shell history so it can default to the last command if and only if it doesn't exist on $PATH.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#18I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Because I don't want to learn another complex DSL just to install some packages. Whether Nix is the promised land or not, Brew works just fine 99% of the time and I have stuff to do.
You don't need to learn the DSL to use Nix as a package manager.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#19I have no idea who this appeals to, or why. If I want something, I want it to be installed and available, not mysteriously cached. If I want multiple versions of something, there are tools like asdf and rtx.
This feels like a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.