Stick to 80 columns in these documents. Org mode has
visual line wrapping (visual-line-mode in Emacs), but we cannot assume
everyone has access to Emacs.
It’s preferred to just with lib; and with nglib; when either is needed, the
function names are well known and not ambigous so they can’t be mistaken with
packages or other such things.
These are basic term definitions, mostly common variable names which help in writing understandable and uniform code.
- nixpkgs - a “raw” nixpkgs attribute set, as from a flake input, requires
importing with
system, generally refers to the stable branch of nixpkgs - nixpkgs-unstable/master - a more specific version of nixpkgs
- pkgs - already imported nixpkgs, specific to a system
- lib - the Nix library from nixpkgs
- nglib - NixNG’s own Nix library
- NixOS module - TBD
- NixNG module - a module specific to NixNG
- home-manager module - a module specific to home-manager