NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally

Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by bpye on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:16AM (#37107452)

> It's fine, just be sure you know where your tools are coming from (use the which command a lot when unsure). Nix might have more up to date or bleeding edge software, although since you're on arch in my experience nix can lag even arch by a little bit.

That'll depend if you're on stable or not. If you're on stable and you need something from unstable that's also possible without any real risk of breakage on NixOS.

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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by ertian on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:55AM (#37110085)

Also, once you've learned the ins and outs of Nix (which TBH I didn't find as hard as others, there's tons of examples) it's usually pretty simple to update software yourself--relatively risk-free. For example, I've been keeping Minecraft on the cutting edge for my kid by occasionally updating a URL and hash. A lot of the modules provide a 'package' option to make that easier.

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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by bpye on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:23PM (#37111987)

Yep, a lot of the time it’s as simple as overriding the src and version of a given package -though if the package has patches to build on Nix it can be more work.

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