14:20 <alexarice[m]> is there a nice way to install emacs packages which are not on melpa

16:41 <etu> alexarice[m]: I kinda do that with my config

16:43 <etu> alexarice[m]: Here I override the packages to give my config a name: https://github.com/etu/nixconfig/blob/master/modules/my-emacs.nix#L93-L97

16:44 <etu> alexarice[m]: and on line 110 I make sure it's loaded

16:44 <etu> alexarice[m]: But auto loading should also work

17:07 <rycee> alexarice: The `trivialBuild` function is quite nice and simple. It's pretty much just to give it the path to a Emacs package or file and it'll install and byte-compile it for you.

17:07 <rycee> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/emacs/trivial.nix

17:07 <rycee> Usage example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/sv-kalender/default.nix

17:10 <rycee> etu: In your case I think something like `myConfigInit = trivialBuild { pname = "init"; src = myEmacsInit; }` should be sufficient :-)

17:10 <rycee> Sorry, `trivialBuild` → `epkgs.trivialBuild`

17:14 <alexarice[m]> thanks

17:25 <etu> rycee: Oh, nice