nixos defaultUserShell

[dezren39]

hi i want to use ysh or maybe osh as my default shell in nixos, for nushell I just set it like so

defaultUserShell = pkgs.nushell;

doing the same doesn't work for oils.

I'm not sure if i need to make a nixos module, or maybe it's because oils-for-unix and oil both have multiple binaries? it may be that a package for ysh and osh is needed, or maybe the oils-for-unix package could have embedded functions? I dunno. I think I could hack this to work as a custom shell, but it would be nice if the nix package itself did it 'right'.

I know this isn't the nixpkgs repo, but it's uh.. a bit busy there. If I get time and find a solution I'll comment here.

[dezren39]

ps there is an oil and an oils-for-unix package, each unique full packages. maybe keep the oil name to not affect existing configurations, but as an alias to oils-for-unix or something.

[dezren39]

ahh oil is the python compile? ok that answers one question

[dezren39]

maybe it would be good to have a home-manager or nixos module or both to configure default shopt and which pkgs between ysh/osh etc

[andychu]

Yes the difference between the two tarballs explained in the "packaging guidelines" - https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.22.0/

(the oil tarball will go away eventually)

I'm not familiar with home-manager but there are a couple dirs to make for history and rc files - https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.22.0/doc/getting-started.html