Using Dropbox on Nixos

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I don’t know if there is a written down policy about which user services should be a part of NixOS and which shouldn’t but FWIW, nixos/onedrive: init by SRGOM · Pull Request #77734 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub on github was rejected

I do agree though, services would make using these packages much more user friendly.

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Those are just dependencies.

We absolutely should have a module in NixOS - no reason not to.

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That is just standard systemd unit stuff. See here for descriptions of what each of those does.

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There is a pull request for that now: nixos/dropbox: new module by romildo · Pull Request #85699 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Why aren’t you using NextSloud?
Everything is much simpler and more GB free (8 GB).
And it already exists in NixOS packages.

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Can you clarify, in which file would this go? Also, given that now, June '23, there seems to be a dropbox package, is this still the way you’d do it?
Thanks

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That earlier example would go into configuration.nix - please note that I no longer use dropbox (replaced it with maestral which is open source and doesn’t count against the 3 device maximum imposed by dropbox), so I don’t know if it still works.