Announcing home-manager template

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Hi!

This is small project I made to help people quickly get started with home-manager in a more reproducible way. It is called “home-manager template”.

Why?

home-manager is a great way to manage user-specific configuration (“dotfiles”) in a reproducible way. This template takes reproducibility another step by making it so you do not need to install home-manager to use it, and do not need to install home-manager configuration files in a specific place.

Also, since this uses niv to pin nixpkgs and home-manager, you do not need nixpkgs on your path and can be sure the build will be the same on any computer.

GitHub - ryantm/home-manager-template: A quick-start template for using home-manager in a more reproducible way.

Please let me know if you have any feedback or improvement suggestions.

Sincerely,
Ryan Mulligan

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Good idea!

One thing you could so is make it a template repository. In the repo settings:
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This will add a new button to the repo:
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Thanks, I’ve enabled the template setting!

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Is this supposed to replace home-manager in the future, or is this a lightweight alternative?

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It isn’t a replacement at all, just a different way to get started using it.

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Thanks a lot for doing this! Having a concise, clear template has been the only thing preventing me from getting coworkers to try it out. Many thanks

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