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> Hunting down every commit hash of every package to pin down the exact version is neither maintainable nor scalable I believe flakes will make this a lot easi
by jbboehr 5y ago
> Hunting down every commit hash of every package to pin down the exact version is neither maintainable nor scalable
I believe flakes will make this a lot easier, but it's not quite here yet.
- clhodapp 5y agoIn terms of version pinning, flakes are essentially just an in-tree equivalent of niv, I will say.
- dmitriid 5y ago> I believe flakes will make this a lot easier Somewhat, I guess? It will apparently let you write this: { inputs = { home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager"; }; } where you can manually point to a specific commit/branch for a tool. Better than nothing, I guess :)