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A lot of the attributes listed in the schema are out of date.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

The user guide documentation needs to resist diving into reference style rabbit holes at every step. I'm trying to get a simple flake based project running but I find I need to read about _all_ the options for flake schema. It seems like there are better places for that information. And, BTW, `nix flake init` works but no subsequent flake command works and I don't know what to do next. I'll figure it out, but probably not using this documentation. — [[User:]]