illogical-impulse/sdata/dist-nix

Install scripts using Nix to achieve cross-distros

• This directory is currently WIP.
• See also Install scripts | illogical-impulse
• See also #1061

NOTE: The sdata/dist-nix is not for NixOS but every distro, using Nix and home-manager.

plan

Note that this script must be idempotent.

TODO:

• Write a proper flake.nix and home.nix and other files under dist-nix/home-manager/ to install all dependencies that dist-arch/ does. (excluding the screenlock)

Attentions

PAM

On non-NixOS distros, programs using PAM (typically screen locker) will not work if installed via Nix, so user has to use their own distro's package for the screen lock.

• One problem is that Debian(-based) distros use modified version of PAM which supports @include directive in /etc/pam.d config files but the PAM from Nix does not support it, see this comment.
• Another problem is the location of a suid helper binary that is necessary, see this comment.

The problem could be solved by using the system-provided libpam instead.

See also https://github.com/caelestia-dots/shell/issues/668

NixGL

On non-NixOS distros, packages installed via home-manager have problem accessing GPU, especially Hyprland because it requires GPU acceleration to launch. nixGL should be used to address the problem.