• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It was usually recommended to lock to inputs anyhow with all the fetchers requiring a hash which I hated having to manually update & like the UX flakes provides (I really wish they supported more than Git & Mercurial tho). You can still have different evals tho if you point to latest.tar.zstd or other non-hashed thing like a branch where the referred to can change & it won’t reproduce. I haven’t used channels in years, but doesn’t that just refer to the running system, not using Nix to build projects?

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      10 months ago

      I haven’t used channels in years, but doesn’t that just refer to the running system, not using Nix to build projects?

      I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.

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        10 months ago

        Aren‘t channels for NixOS, and you’d use overlays for building packages? Now you can do that all with flakes.