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This tracking issue is to keep an overview of guides for most common use cases.
- Dependency management with
npins(with Home Manager) - Automatic environments with
direnv(with Home Manager) - Package scaffolding (with
nix-init) - Building a bootable NixOS ISO image
- Running pre-built binaries on NixOS
- Nix post-build hooks #463
- Using a specific package version #490
- Managing secrets (no optimal solution)
- Overview of package customisation #731
- Overview of pinning techniques #907 (no optimal solution)
Guides should complement the tutorials, and should be quite short. They can even duplicate important topics to have a condensed form for quick lookup. Related: #910
A good example is the guide on sharing dependencies with shell.nix. It starts with a very small sample to show the pattern (which requires some proficiency with the Nix language to grasp quickly), and expands on the details below the fold.