| 25 Dec 2025 |
 raitobezarius | Good to know, I will open issues to see what to do about that, thanks! | 04:19:20 |
 EsperLily [she/her] | that's actually a good question, i have it set up as an extra substituter in my configuration but i don't remember why | 04:31:56 |
| EsperLily [she/her] | was it recommended at one point to use past installation? | 04:32:11 |
| raitobezarius | The installer automatically put it | 04:33:16 |
| EsperLily [she/her] | no i added it to my nix-darwin configuration, in a commit 19 months ago that just says "Add cache settings for cache.lix.systems" | 04:34:18 |
| EsperLily [she/her] | i'm deleting it now of course, but i don't know why i added it in the first place, and searching for it in the current docs just shows it as part of an installer invocation. perhaps 19 months ago there was a different recommendation | 04:36:41 |
| raitobezarius | We definitely had it recommended in the very first days and it was a bad idea given we never populated it meaningfully with cached nightly builds | 04:37:53 |
| EsperLily [she/her] | alright that would explain it then, since i switched during the early days | 04:38:05 |
|  flacks changed their display name from flax to flacks. | 08:42:59 |
|  pentane changed their display name from pentane ⭔ to pentane (DECT CYPT/2978). | 11:23:34 |
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 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html | 15:19:55 |
 K900 | Except nixpkgs also exists as snapshot tarballs that we host ourselves? | 15:28:04 |
| K900 | Like, "nixpkgs is giving github issues" is a "nixpkgs is a big repo" problem | 15:28:13 |
| K900 | Not a "nixpkgs uses git" problem | 15:28:17 |
 Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | git handles big repos more poorly than they need to be
although nixpkgs still needs a significant amount of the repo checked out to function i think
| 15:35:06 |
 KFears (they/them) | Nixpkgs is given as an example of a big tepo that is also kind of a package registry | 15:35:14 |
| KFears (they/them) | Not as an example of the fully traditional package registry | 15:35:25 |
| KFears (they/them) | Point here being is that if you push enough shit into git, it will fall apart | 15:35:44 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | if IFD was cheap i think nixpkgs could be way lighter than a git repo checkout or a tarball | 15:39:45 |
| K900 | Git is fine at nixpkgs scale honestly | 16:22:25 |
| K900 | Github on the other hand | 16:22:32 |
 piegames | I think that post is less relevant for Nixpkgs itself and more for whatever comes after Flakes | 17:08:33 |
