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Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article clearly states otherwise

Flakes also are a symptom or cause of much intra-community strife between "pro-flakes" and "anti-flakes" factions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, that's easy -- that's utter bullshit. Article is generous, this is a blog post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

😂 why do you believe that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because I'm pretty active in the Nix community and have never seen a single anti-flakes comment anywhere. Plenty of people advocating for flakes, and those who don't use or understand flakes. But never anyone who actively dislikes them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OK, I see where you're coming from. You're interpreting "anti" as "dislike". Have you considered interpreting it as those who don't use and don't want to use flakes?

Just because there is disagreement, doesn't mean that it has to be tied to negative emotions like hate or dislike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well no, because that's not what "anti" means.

And one can absolutely use NixOS without using flakes, whether they're marked experimental or not. They're simply a way to make inputs declarative, rather than the nix-channel method which is imperative.

So there's no "disagreement" here either.