Agreed, flakes are the way. Its just making them searchable hasn’t been easy/realistic until recently.
Also I feel like flakes are kind of tainted by always pulling in nixpkgs as a massive dependency chain. I think there should be a standard library separate from the packages, and nixpkgs.lib is 80% pure functions. So I’ve been working on making a “lib” flake that
Is 100% pure (no stdenv)
is versioned
doesnt link/depend on all of nixpkgs
I know it still won’t be practical to avoid depending on nixpkgs, but I think its a step towards breaking up nixpkg into organized/managable chunks.
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Agreed, flakes are the way. Its just making them searchable hasn’t been easy/realistic until recently.
Also I feel like flakes are kind of tainted by always pulling in nixpkgs as a massive dependency chain. I think there should be a standard library separate from the packages, and nixpkgs.lib is 80% pure functions. So I’ve been working on making a “lib” flake that
I know it still won’t be practical to avoid depending on nixpkgs, but I think its a step towards breaking up nixpkg into organized/managable chunks.
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Oh cool! I didn’t know about that. Maybe I can work eith the other person who is doing that.