major-differences-nixpkgs.md

Major differences from Nixpkgs

Although there is desire to keep as aligned with Nixpkgs as possible, Ekapkgs isn't obligated to retain poor UX paradigms either. In that vein, the following changes differ significantly from whath one would expct with Nixpkgs.

Evaluation behavior

• ~/.config/nix is no longer respected for config or overlays
• config.gitConfig and config.gitConfigFile were removed
  • Globally altering git behavior should be done at the machine level

Package paradigms

• setupHooks for build managers are now explicit and opt-in.
  • E.g. meson.configurePhaseHook now needs to be specified.