One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by ingve » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

One Nix flake to rule them all
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Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by digdugdirk » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

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Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by sivakon » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

digdugdirk wrote: post #2

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> I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views, you've found the wrong Fareed.

this is on their about page

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Post by mcmcmc » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

digdugdirk wrote: post #2

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This is not the plagiarist political commentator. From the author’s about page:

> I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views, you've found the wrong Fareed.

Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by AyanamiKaine » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

Wow, it looks really cool!

I will definitely try it! If there is one think that breaks me is always chasing that one shared library for example when developing something using SDl3 and its GPU API.

Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by LogTrim » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

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Post by jchw » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

I'm not entirely sure if it's a good idea per se, but hell, what's the point in making everything properly lazy if you couldn't. I mean me personally, I routinely use 20-30 flake inputs for large system configurations and I've never really minded this at all. The only real concern I have is that overriding Nixpkgs to avoid duplicates can occasionally break since the dependency may not be ready for the latest Nixpkgs, but this so far has only ever hit me with nix-vim, which arguably should be in Nixpkgs anyways in some form (although I haven't used it in a while so not sure what the status is.)

Because you have to, I searched and found that at least one of my flakes are in there, nix-binary-ninja, which is a Nix flake for the proprietary Binary Ninja disassembler/decompiler. Neat. (FYI though, while I use that, I'm not sure I actually recommend it; it does gross things to make binja use system libraries for better integration, which right now breaks some extensions. Oh well...)

Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by markasoftware » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

digdugdirk wrote: post #2

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Please be satire

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Post by wredcoll » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

When I first met NixOS, it struck me as a super cool idea that would be incredibly useful just as soon as every other piece of software/programmer in the world converted to using it.

I haven't seen anything to change my mind since.

Re: One Nix flake to rule them all

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Post by wredcoll » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC

wredcoll wrote: post #9

When I first met NixOS, it struck me as a super cool idea that would be incredibly useful just as soon as every other piece of software/programmer in the world converted to using it. I haven't seen anything to change my mind since.

To elaborate in a way that will make absolutely everyone unhappy, framework vs library is a decent analogy here and nixos is very definitely a framework.

Compare that to systemd, which despite having more tentacles than your average jellyfish, is actually a library, relative to "linux" as a whole. It's one reason it has more adoption.