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Raito Bezarius b8cb7abcf0 chore: rebrand Nix to Lix when it makes sense

Here's my guide so far:

$ rg '((?!(recursive).*) Nix
(?!(daemon|store|expression|Rocks!|Packages|language|derivation|archive|account|user|sandbox|flake).*))'
-g '!doc/' --pcre2

All items from this query have been tackled. For the documentation side:
that's for https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/162.

Additionally, all remaining references to github.com/NixOS/nix which
were not relevant were also replaced.

Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/148.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/162.
Change-Id: Ib3451fae5cb8ab8cd9ac9e4e4551284ee6794545
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>

2024-06-01 20:31:24 +02:00

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Note: this command's interface is based heavily around installables, which you may want to read about first (nix --help).

Examples

Run the default app from the blender-bin flake:
```
# nix run blender-bin
```
Run a non-default app from the blender-bin flake:
```
# nix run blender-bin#blender_2_83
```
Tip: you can find apps provided by this flake by running nix flake show blender-bin.
Run vim from the nixpkgs flake:
```
# nix run nixpkgs#vim
```
Note that vim (as of the time of writing of this page) is not an app but a package. Thus, Lix runs the eponymous file from the vim package.
Run vim with arguments:
```
# nix run nixpkgs#vim -- --help
```

Description

nix run builds and runs installable, which must evaluate to an app or a regular Nix derivation.

If installable evaluates to an app (see below), it executes the program specified by the app definition.

If installable evaluates to a derivation, it will try to execute the program <out>/bin/<name>, where out is the primary output store path of the derivation, and name is the first of the following that exists:

The meta.mainProgram attribute of the derivation.
The pname attribute of the derivation.
The name part of the value of the name attribute of the derivation.

For instance, if name is set to hello-1.10, nix run will run $out/bin/hello.

Flake output attributes

If no flake output attribute is given, nix run tries the following flake output attributes:

apps.<system>.default
packages.<system>.default

If an attribute name is given, nix run tries the following flake output attributes:

apps.<system>.<name>
packages.<system>.<name>
legacyPackages.<system>.<name>

Apps

An app is specified by a flake output attribute named apps.<system>.<name>. It looks like this:

apps.x86_64-linux.blender_2_79 = {
  type = "app";
  program = "${self.packages.x86_64-linux.blender_2_79}/bin/blender";
};

The only supported attributes are:

type (required): Must be set to app.
program (required): The full path of the executable to run. It must reside in the Nix store.

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Description

Flake output attributes

Apps

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