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AFAIK you don't have to use flakes. Same as it's fine to only use shell.nix. No system is for eternity, nix builds are deterministically cached, often never rep
by hakre 4y ago
AFAIK you don't have to use flakes. Same as it's fine to only use shell.nix. No system is for eternity, nix builds are deterministically cached, often never reproduced, so I see no strong arguments against using direnv with shell.nix.
- striking 4y agoNo, we don't have to use them, but they have lots of advantages and lots of support from the community that we just can't tap into.