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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Share evaluation caches across installables Before: $ rm -rf ~/.cache/nix && time -f '%E' nix build --dry-run \ 'nixpkgs#hello' \ 'nixpkgs#clang' \ 'nixpkgs#cargo' \ 'nixpkgs#rustup' \ 'nixpkgs#bear' \ 'nixpkgs#firefox' \ 'nixpkgs#git-revise' \ 'nixpkgs#hyperfine' \ 'nixpkgs#curlie' \ 'nixpkgs#xz' \ 'nixpkgs#ripgrep' 0:03.61 After: $ rm -rf ~/.cache/nix && time -f '%E' nix build --dry-run \ 'nixpkgs#hello' \ 'nixpkgs#clang' \ 'nixpkgs#cargo' \ 'nixpkgs#rustup' \ 'nixpkgs#bear' \ 'nixpkgs#firefox' \ 'nixpkgs#git-revise' \ 'nixpkgs#hyperfine' \ 'nixpkgs#curlie' \ 'nixpkgs#xz' \ 'nixpkgs#ripgrep' 0:01.46 This could probably use a more proper benchmark... Fixes #313 (cherry picked from commit de51e5c335865e3e0a8cccd283fec1a52cce243f) Change-Id: I9350bebd462b6af12c51db5bf432321abfe84a16 |
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bench | ||
clang-tidy | ||
contrib | ||
doc | ||
lix-doc | ||
maintainers | ||
meson | ||
misc | ||
nix-support | ||
perl | ||
releng | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
subprojects/aws_sdk | ||
tests | ||
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.clang-tidy | ||
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.editorconfig | ||
.envrc | ||
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boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff | ||
CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
COPYING | ||
default.nix | ||
docker.nix | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
justfile | ||
meson.build | ||
meson.options | ||
package.nix | ||
README.md | ||
shell.nix | ||
treefmt.toml | ||
version.json |
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.