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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 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/nix

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[–] [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.