A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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implementing a build hook is pretty much impossible without either being a nix, or blindly forwarding the important bits of all build requests to some kind of nix. we've found no uses of build-hook in the wild, and the build-hook protocol (apart from being entirely undocumented) is not able to convey any kind of versioning information between hook and daemon. if we want to upgrade this infrastructure (which we do), this must not stay Change-Id: I1ec4976a35adf8105b8ca9240b7984f8b91e147e |
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bench | ||
contrib | ||
doc | ||
lix-doc | ||
maintainers | ||
meson | ||
misc | ||
nix-support | ||
perl | ||
releng | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
subprojects | ||
tests | ||
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CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
COPYING | ||
default.nix | ||
docker.nix | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
justfile | ||
meson.build | ||
meson.options | ||
package.nix | ||
README.md | ||
shell.nix | ||
treefmt.toml | ||
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Lix
Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
Read more about us at https://lix.systems.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install
For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.
Additional Resources
License
Lix is released under the LGPL v2.1.