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Why is allowUnfree needed? #147

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louwers opened this issue Jun 29, 2020 · 3 comments
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Why is allowUnfree needed? #147

louwers opened this issue Jun 29, 2020 · 3 comments

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@louwers
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louwers commented Jun 29, 2020

Could you document why allowUnfree is needed?
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I am not sure how deep the rabbit hole we should go with duplicating documentation of existing systems.

But yeah, will add an explanation to that. In a few words, Nix by default will not install any packages which are unfree so you need to set allowUnfree to true for Nix to install them.

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louwers commented Jun 30, 2020 •
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Maybe document which editors/packages specifically require this setting -- many people (myself included) would rather not install non-free packages and want to keep allowUnfree false.

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For the things I will work on myself I like to have a pragmatic approach.
Feel free to submit a PR if you want to get into this though

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