Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by rowanG077 on Monday January 15, 2024 @04:49AM (#38998990)

Those includes all those packages which aren't packaged on other distros due to them being expected to be available via their native tooling. Examples are the entirety of pythonPackages, haskellPackages, emacsPackags. vscodePackages etc. Which I mentioned before in this very thread.

It makes little sense if you compare it like this. It would be stupid for any other package repo to include those package since they already exist. The only reason nixpkgs needs to do it is for purity reasons.

The metric that matters is "how many packages can I easily install on this distro". And nixpkgs most certainly is not in the lead here.

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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by tkz1312 on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:52AM (#39000977)

I don’t follow. Non-unique packages is a metric that explicitly only includes packages that are present across multiple distros?

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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by rowanG077 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @11:26AM (#39043720)

A package is non-unique if it is available in at least 2 repositories. Guess what. Repology tracks Guix as well which means many packages will be just in those two repos, marking them as non-unique.

If you want a non-misleading comparison you have to remove all these packages, which are actually managed by a different package manager every. from nixpkgs and put that into repology.

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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by tkz1312 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:39PM (#39073207)

You can remove the entirety of the guix package set (26468) from the non-unique part of nixpkgs (71875) and it would still be the largest non-unique package set (second largest non-unique is AUR at 37900).

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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by rowanG077 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:30AM (#39079906)

Guix is just an example there are other distros with some subsets packaged.

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