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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by DiThi on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:09AM (#15247561)
Nix has node 8.4 in its unstable channel, and it seems very easy to change[0].

I don't know about couch but it has 2.0 and the change to 2.1 shouldn't be big.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/c699694cbf4400480fe4...

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by hedning on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:44PM (#15249786)
Yes, with nixos it's easy and _safe_ to install packages from unstable while running a stable system as default (installing stuff never breaks your system).

There's also a fairly new feature called overlays which are used to fully track upstream releases (there's overlays available for rust and Firfox Nightly for instance).

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