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As part of my software engineering practice, I tend to take notes. Sometimes when the content seems to be useful for others, it gets thrown onto this website. It's not particularly curated, but hopefully, you'll find something of interest in this mess.
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The NixOS “settings” option: when and how to use it
Two years ago, , a new settings option to NixOS modules. Previously, to define extra settings on top of the default ones, you would use the extraConfig parameter. But it was inconvenient to use it, and sometimes the option exposed faulty behavior. This is all gone with settings, which can specify configuration files as a structural Nix value.
NixOS modules that ship with nixpkgs has been slowly adopting it and now we have some experience of how it plays out in practice.
Here I will discuss the pros and cons of settings and its usage: when it's appropriate to use it and when to avoid it. I'll also give you some recommendations.
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