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Good Nix OS series: five articles for new users.
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Oh that's good that they are addressing those issues with a new command. Hopefully it gets into stable soon.
Might be that
nix-env -iA
is bad practice! I'm strictly talking about ux design here andnix-env -iA
is being recommend by blogs and nix themselves. (Nixpkgs tells you how to install usingnix-env -iA
)A new user isn't going to know what bad practice is.
It actually recommends using
nix-env -i
, which is even worse because with that command it searches the whole repository instead of just getting the correct attribute on nixpkgs. It takes half a minute to run the command, it's insane.