The binary should be named nh

[thecaralice]

nh_darwin is fully compatible with nh, it is not a different project but just the original project with several patches, nh_darwin should not conflict with nh is these are not supposed to be installed together. Please rename to nh.

[bestlem]

The issue I think is that the original nh does run on macOS - it will manage home-manager at least.
How do you differentiate the two?

[thecaralice]

I would differentiate between the packages, but why would I need to differentiate between the actual binaries if I only have one of them installed at any moment? Like GCC linker and LLVM linker are both /bin/ld despite having completely different implementations, and Vim xxd and standalone xxd are both /bin/xxd despite having different origins.

[ToyVo]

Originally it wasn't renamed but people wanted it.

#6

Additionally if you use the modules provided by the flake you can enable programs.nh.alias to create a symlink to nh

[thecaralice]

Well I think the decision to rename the tool was rather rash and after reading both #6 and LnL7/nix-darwin#942 I still don't see any issue caused by nh_darwin binary being called nh.

[ToyVo]

I'm not disagreeing with you. Being that I did that change "rashly" I would appreciate anyone else chiming in so I don't make another rash decision.

[thecaralice]

I should note that this description is somewhat ironic

[ToyVo]

anybody who comes across this and would like to provide input please contribute here: #18
I am unsure of when I will end the poll, I can't imagine It'll get a ton of votes