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Configuration in NixOS
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Configuration in NixOS is not very straightforward. On other Linux
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distribution site-specific information (password files, host files, and
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so on) are stored with information that is rather generic for a lot of
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operating systems. To be able to handle these in a gentle way I have decided
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to seperate these two a bit more in NixOS.
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In particular, in the /etc directory there is a Nix profile called "configs".
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In this profile the generic configuration is kept. In time this can grow
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to keep configuration which is site specific, but which can easily be kept
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in the store, such as "profile" (default system wide Bourne shell profile)
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Right now two packages should be in this profile:
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* etcServices : installs a file called "services" (/etc/services should
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point to this)
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* etcProtocols : installs a file called "protocols" (/etc/protocols should
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point to this)
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During install time these packages should be installed and the right symlinks
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should be made.
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When NIX-40 is closed, we might consider making /etc itself a profile and
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keep even more configuration information inside the Nix store.
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