Talk:Flakes

A lot of the attributes listed in the schema are out of date.

Using flakes with NixOS

looks like upgrading NixOS when using flakes now requires

``` $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade --recreate-lock-file ```

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.