Nix on macOS

There is nix-darwin project that brings Nix configuration to describing many of macOS services.

Notes

• To not enter password on every darwin-rebuild switch with nix-darwin, you can create /etc/sudoers.d/nix-darwin file with this content:
  • <home-user> ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /run/current-system/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild (where home-user is name of home directory)
• Nix darwin generates files to etc/static

Links

• Nix on Darwin – History, challenges, and where it's going by Dan Peebles
• Neat macOS nix Darwin config.nix
• Changing the configuration.nix location
• Moving from Homebrew to Nix Package Manager (2019)
• Nix on Catalina installer (GitHub PR) (Another Gist solution)