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Nix flakes vaugely analogous to Docker Compose? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by clemmyzemmy@sopuli.xyz to c/nix@programming.dev

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Howdy y'all non-developer trying to understand nix flakes.

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[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Flakes are just a mechanism of pinning dependencies to fixed versions. When you run a flake it doesnt matter if you're on 24.05, 24.11, or unstable, it'll produce the exact same output.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, they provide a reproducible environment for the modules.

However, one should know that there is a catch which can make flakes believe differently on different machines when updating inputs. That is when you have inputs in your flake that point to your flakes registry. Especially the system entries can trip you up