home-manager

I found that I don't need a home-manager.

• I don't want to store my configuration files in nix store. I want to deal with them in my dotfiles repository

  If I use home-manager, the configuration structure would look like this:

  dotfiles repository -> nix store (hard copy) -> ~/.config (symlinked)
  

  I don't want this.

  I can bypass nix store by using mkOutOfStoreSymlink but what's the point of using nix for configuring then?

  related links (haven't read them all):

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670132

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1dhrr0c/question_mkoutofstoresymlink_not_create_a_symlink/

  • https://zaynetro.com/post/2024-you-dont-need-home-manager-nix

  • https://ayats.org/blog/no-home-manager