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> Also the unintuitive inverse of traditional package management, where if you want to update one package, all the system updates by default What do you mean?
by qiine 1y ago
> Also the unintuitive inverse of traditional package management, where if you want to update one package, all the system updates by default
What do you mean? ins't that exactly the arch way ? (no partial update supported)
- guilhas 1y agoIn Arch if I needed something updated today you would have done > pacman -Sy > pacman -S package_name Leavig the rest system unchanged In Nixos > nix-channel --update > Add package to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix > nixos-rebuild switch Which would update everything Maybe we could do > nix-channel --update > nix-env -iA packagename But I am not sure which version would be installed. And it would definitely go against the purpose of using nixos > nix-shell -p package_name It is also quite cool for trying packages without installing permanently