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We intend to make all GTK apps depend on the desktop schemas. Since the schemas depend on gnome-backgrounds to determine the default wallpaper path, it would increase the closure size significantly for smaller apps. We could split out the org.gnome.desktop.background and screensaver schemas but that would make the packaging unnecessarily complicated. Instead we remove the backgrounds dependency since they are not used (outside of GNOME) or they will be replaced by a different set by the NixOS module. There will be no background when running GNOME manually but that can be easily fixed.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-17.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 17.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.09 release
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