still builds i checked
i think it's probably fine to keep it, i don't think it's worth maintaining a whole custom thing just to avoid a small dependency
are we waiting for @pastthepixels' opinion on this, or should i mark this as resolved?
i don't think this is worth debating. in the interest of moving forward with the PR i have removed the command [here](!8 (commit 15989dd7a3)...
although i didn't know home manager set that up automatically. do we need to make a module?
that's a good point. wouldn't we also need to get rid of the nix run command as well in that case?
nix has a use case as an alternative to your distro package manager for software that isn't available in it's repos. for those users, imperative is all they're used to, and including the command...
i get that, i suppose. the proposed manual solution, though, has the same pitfalls that makes flake-utils not recommended by the community. in this case the flake is simple enough that they aren't...
i don't think we should push nix users to install and set up home manager or nixos just to use the package. profiles are the mechanism through which you install user packages in nix. iirc, home...
i copied it from the AUR listing. i thought the bare gpl3 license was deprecated? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses/licenses.nix#L1684
i don't see a problem with using flake-parts though. it's a pretty small dependency. i can totally do it without if that's really necessary but its nice to use, and imo preferable to flake-utils...
can you provide a link to them saying that? i seem to remember them discouraging nix-env, but nix profile is better about determinism because each package comes from a specific flake version so...