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Re:NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released by pmarreck on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:07AM (#33818159)
(speaking as someone who hasn't actually fully converted over to flakes yet)

Because it actually fulfills the original promise of Nix: Forever-reproducible builds.

Anyone who's ever dealt with a lockfile across any stack that supports that idea in dependency definition, knows how this works and what it's good for.

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Re:NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released by lijogdfljk on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:26AM (#33818473)
Couldn't agree more. I love Nix (well, i have nits with the lang/UX), but Flakes is essential imo.

Using Nix without Flakes is going through 99% of the trouble for concrete, reproducible builds but then dropping the last 1%.

I had my non-Flake builds break like it was a mutable operating system. I just don't get why Flakes aren't the standard.

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