nix-meddle

Meddle around in your /nix/store/ without actually destroying anything!

Warning: Really early stage. Except breakages!

What is this??

Quasi savely meddle around in your nix store.

How often have you thought "men, I just want to reeeaaaaally quickly change that one line in that file in the Nix Store". But for obvious reasons you don't do it.

Nix-Meddle is here to solve that! Instead of editing files in the nix store, this tool copies the files into a save-to-edit path and makes a bind-mount. And even better: instead of doing a global mount, it does an unshare (some kind of shell magic), so that the mount point is only visible for your current shell session!

Therefore the global system won't be damaged!

Install

Nix Flakes

Just run:

nix run github:Melkor333/nix-meddle

Nix without flakes

TODO.

(PS: I hated people like me only providing a flake. until I learned flakes.. : )

Usage

• Run nix-meddle
• It will ask you some stuff and print out 2 commands at the end
• Run the unshare -r -m command first
• After that run the mount... command
• Meddle around in the path printed out

TODO: Smol Demo where I replace ls with sl insert troll face.