The dissed Steering Comittee answer: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-scs-role-in-the-disbandmen...
(They disagree)
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
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Re: The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
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> tightly-coupled, non-modular, non-scalable pattern, experimental This is a massive part of the problem to be advocating for & adopting flakes. My config is much simpler: nixos-rebuild switch --file host/$HOSTNAME. This doesn’t require a properly evaluating, not-quite-Nix manifest file to just to build a system. If more folks understood the standard package format & overlays, they too would come to the conclusion th…
Where is --file argument documented? I checked the man page, that doesn't exist.
The manpage for `nix build` & `nix shell` goes to `nix-build` & `nix-shell` the stable, non-experimental command which do not need a file as an arg since they are more developer-friendly. The `nix-command` experimental stuff is documented somewhere else—maybe https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.35/command-ref/new-cli/nix.html... is good enough for the concept. `man nixos-rebuild`, `man nix profile` have `--file, -F` documented.