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it's not on top of Nix itself but (about to be) a part of it. according to the NixOS Wiki [1] Flakes is an upcoming feature of the base package manager. it's no
by imatpot 5y ago
it's not on top of Nix itself but (about to be) a part of it. according to the NixOS Wiki [1] Flakes is an upcoming feature of the base package manager. it's not part of the stable channel yet, and "proper" documentation only currently exists in the unstable manual [2].
[1] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
[2] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake.html https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...
- e3bc54b2 5y agoGP is kind of right though. Flakes are effectively packages for Nix expressions. Even priginal Flakes RFC calls this out. But the difference is, as you mentioned, flakes are integrated within Nix, and provide better ergonomics.