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=== flakes ===

I see advantages of flakes: having the split between flake.nix describing 'abstractly' what version you want to run, and the flake.lock describing the *actual* version you're running right now, is helpful.

I see advantages of flakes: having the split between flake.nix describing 'abstractly' what version you want to run, and the flake.lock describing the *actual* version you're running right now, is helpful. Also the new structure provides some opportunities for caching.

It does introduce some ~~dilemma's, though~~: checking in flake.lock seems rather restrictive on downstream users, and will be likely to cause merge conflicts when you collaborate using forks.

It does introduce some dilemmas: checking in flake.lock seems rather restrictive on downstream users, and will be likely to cause merge conflicts when you collaborate using forks.

Also, I really like working from a local nixpkgs checkout, but that is not very well-supported by flakes yet: it copies it to the nix store each time, which takes a lot of disk space and is slow. Work on this is underway at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 but seems to be stalled.

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 === flakes ===
-I see advantages of flakes: having the split between flake.nix describing 'abstractly' what version you want to run, and the flake.lock describing the *actual* version you're running right now, is helpful.
+I see advantages of flakes: having the split between flake.nix describing 'abstractly' what version you want to run, and the flake.lock describing the *actual* version you're running right now, is helpful. Also the new structure provides some opportunities for caching.
-It does introduce some dilemma's, though: checking in flake.lock seems rather restrictive on downstream users, and will be likely to cause merge conflicts when you collaborate using forks.
+It does introduce some dilemmas: checking in flake.lock seems rather restrictive on downstream users, and will be likely to cause merge conflicts when you collaborate using forks.
 Also, I really like working from a local nixpkgs checkout, but that is not very well-supported by flakes yet: it copies it to the nix store each time, which takes a lot of disk space and is slow. Work on this is underway at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 but seems to be stalled.