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Provide example in README for using `nix (shell|build) mach-nix#gen.(python|docker).package1`

See original GitHub issue

Thank you for your work, I am sure as soon as I get it working it’s gonna be super helpful! I am new to Nix, so maybe this is an obvious thing

I was really intrigued by the usage of nix (shell|build) mach-nix#gen.python.package1 as a way of diving into a shell with package1 installed.

I have tried to substitute package1 with:

The name in Pypi: So the command becomes nix shell mach-nix#gen.python.requests. And I get the following output message: error: packages.x86_64-linux.gen.python.requests.meta.priority is not an Integer.
The name of the package in nixpkgs: So the command becomes nix shell mach-nix#gen.python.python39Packages\.requests. And I get a similar error saying that such attribute is not provided by flake:mach-nix.

Hence, could you provide an example in the README.md for helpless souls like me that are just getting into Nix?

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Danielhp95commented, Jul 29, 2022

Thank you for your time!

I made sure to update my mach-nix copy via nix flake update and I had the same output. I tried to run the flake directly from github as you said it worked for you, and still got the same error:

I shall start digging into the source code to see if I find something

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573commented, Oct 7, 2022

Does #503 fix it ?

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