Nix/NixOS are great for documenting system configurations and models.
But long evaluation times make for slow feed back loops. My knowledge of the functional ecosystem is mostly diddly, but maybe there’s a way to speed it up? Ignore all module and package imports and piece together a minimal evaluation perhaps?
{ ... }:
{
imports = [
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/git.nix>
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/security/auditd.nix>
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.nix>
];
nixpkgs.overlays = [
(_: pkgs: {
cpio = pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix> { };
})
];
}If that goes anywhere, maybe that’s an article, but I’m fairly certain someone must have tried something like this already.