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I noticed that a lot of people complain that flakes are hard to understand. The first paragraph of this article used to be very confusing and didn't really capture what I feel flakes are truly about. I've rewritten it to be more direct about the local locking of dependencies, which is what I see as the truly essential flake feature. -- [[User:Sid-code]]
I noticed that a lot of people complain that flakes are hard to understand. The first paragraph of this article used to be very confusing and didn't really capture what I feel flakes are truly about. I've rewritten it to be more direct about the local locking of dependencies, which is what I see as the truly essential flake feature. -- [[User:Sid-code]]
== Making it more legible for newcomers ==
There are a couple of changes I'd love to see to start, but the whole article overall needs a revamp.
1. A section explaining how flakes are relevant for desktop use
2. A basic example flake for people to look at and use on their own system, with comments explaining what each line does
There will come a time when flakes aren't experimental, and such widely used features will need good, easy to understand documentation.
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