Add support for Nix develop through flakes #246
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For the unfamiliar, flake.nix is vaguely similar to what a Dockerfile would be: It describes packages, dependencies, environment variables required to build the project. This flake.nix should be all that's required for someone who wants to build this project under Nix.
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For the unfamiliar, flake.nix is vaguely similar to what a Dockerfile would be: It describes packages, dependencies, environment variables required to build the project.
This flake.nix should be all that's required for someone who wants to build this project under Nix. Although I haven't tested it myself, I believe the flake should support most system configuration as it doesn't have hard coded values, but if there was such a problem, I'd be more than happy to help and fix those as they arise.
Here's how someone would use this flake to build cosmic-greeter: