@antifuchs nix config or emacs config?

(cuz i'm using spacemacs for my emacs config)

@meena emacs configuration in nix, but I use vanilla with my own config. I think you can use it for spacemacs too (doom would need a separate config due to the different packaging system used)

@antifuchs do you use a single-user or a multi-user nix install?

@meena @antifuchs multi-user is recommended and maybe most used. It will setup a system-wide nix daemon, and users can then queue their builds to be run through the daemon.

Although if you're just trying to get an upgraded Emacs, and nix/guix is not requirement, and are already using docker or some other self contained image technology, then try going that way instead.

@abbe @antifuchs i've tried the flatpack, but that's not very useful as an… IDE, because it can't access all (any) of my dev tools on my machine

@meena @antifuchs then I guess some other package manager in different prefix or nix/guix. I have never used Linuxbrew or pkgsrc on GNU/Linux, can try those.

@meena I use nix only on machines that I control, but I run the multi-user daemon setup.

@cwebber @elementary i knew you'd say that…

but what about a working version of okular? #ć
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305534
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65956

which then lead us to:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/362
and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/230

@julm but that's doom, i use spacemacs – and it seems to have worked just fine!