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Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0 by lakecresva on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:16AM (#25195832)
I filed a PR in the nix pills repo like eight months ago that never got touched; they're effectively abandoned and contain hard errors. One more snare trap in the mine field that is nix documentation.

To anyone that wanders by this, if you value your time at all, don't bother with nix unless you have someone you can corner and directly get answers from.

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Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0 by soraminazuki on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:26AM (#25196148)
> they're effectively abandoned and contain hard errors

Provably false. The last commit was Oct 9, not "eight months ago," and numerous PRs were merged since then:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/commits/master

https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclos...

> don't bother with nix unless you have someone you can corner and directly get answers from.

Just because your single PR slipped through the maintainers attention? Wow, you must have to avoid a lot of high profile open source projects.

Furthermore, the official page very clearly states how you could reach the community for help, although I highly recommend you to lower your tone before doing so:

https://nixos.org/community.html

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