Home Manager is great,
but it's tedious to run home-manager edit,
add your package to the file,
and run home-manager switch
every time you want to install a package.
I wanted a workflow like Poetry,
where I could just add a package and install it in one command.
So, I made hdn.
You can call it like so:
shell
hdn add pkgs.hello
This will add pkgs.hello to your home.packages in home.nix, and call home-manager switch.
If home-manager switch fails, it will automatically roll back home.nix to its previous version.
This program requires that:
- you have home-manger on your PATH
- home.nix lives in ~/.config/home-manager/
- home.nix contains the attribute home.packages, the list of packages in the user environment
These requirements should be satisfied with the default home-manager installation.
This program uses Rust, and I don't actually know how to program in Rust.
(I chose Rust because I found a Rust library for easily reading and writing nix files.)
Someday I'll go back, actually learn Rust, and rewrite this, but for now, use at your own risk.