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As someone who recently picked up Nix and isn’t using flakes the reason for that is that none of the official documentation seemed to be saying it was a good id
by jon-wood 4y ago
As someone who recently picked up Nix and isn’t using flakes the reason for that is that none of the official documentation seemed to be saying it was a good idea, and all I could find to the contrary was random blog posts, none of which actually explained what on Earth a flake is. I think I vaguely understand them now, but I’m hesitant to rip out the setup I’ve eventually got to and replace it with the new hotness just for the sake of it.
- colordrops 4y agoIt is pretty old for being the "new hotness". It allows me to idiomatically and completely encapsulate my system declaratively in config. Nix isn't complete without this IMO.
- Nullabillity 4y agoYou could do the same before with Niv. The new flake.nix format is pretty awful too (why do I need to declare every supported target triple separately?!).