Nix / NixOS

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

extraSpecialArgs has real_escape_string energy

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[–] degen@midwest.social 1 point 1 year ago

really fits the snowflake vibe too

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

BTW, you shouldn't really need extraSpecialArgs in most cases; setting a _module.args config option should be enough.

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[–] degen@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Gotta love that I've had my daily use machine running nixos for a couple years now and I don't even know what that is 😂

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago

This is needed for Flake-based setups where you use some NixOS modules that aren't in Nixpkgs (home-manager being the most common use-case).

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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Any sites you can link that explain the differences and how to use it?

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

There's a short explanation in this section: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-option-types-submodule (look for specialArgs) and in this section: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#module-system-lib-evalModules-param-specialArgs. I don't know whether it's documented properly somewhere.