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Sender	Message	Time
20 Dec 2025
goldstein	`nix-repl> builtins.flakeRefToString { type = "indirect"; id = "lol"; ref = "lol/9bdfd23e28ffc1fb5a6e52e43dad4288701bb05d"; } "flake:lol/lol/9bdfd23e28ffc1fb5a6e52e43dad4288701bb05d" nix-repl> builtins.flakeRefToString { type = "indirect"; id = "lol"; ref = "lol"; rev = "9bdfd23e28ffc1fb5a6e52e43dad4288701bb05d"; } "flake:lol/lol/9bdfd23e28ffc1fb5a6e52e43dad4288701bb05d` no question here, I just want to share my pain 🫠 why are flakerefs so ambiguous	18:54:59
goldstein	I knew that `parse(serialize(flakeref))` is not noop because of HTTP query params, but I didn’t know that indirect flakerefs are also ambigous	18:59:00
goldstein	and `getFlake` only takes string flakerefs, so some `getFlake` invocations are quite literally inexpressible	18:59:37
goldstein	`nix-repl> builtins.parseFlakeRef (builtins.flakeRefToString { type = "indirect"; id = "nixpkgs"; ref = "refs/heads/master"; }) error: … while calling the 'parseFlakeRef' builtin at «string»:1:1: 1\| builtins.parseFlakeRef (builtins.flakeRefToString { type = "indirect"; id = "nixpkgs"; ref = "refs/heads/master"; }) \| ^ error: GitHub URL 'flake:nixpkgs/refs/heads/master' is invalid` that one is probably a bug though? no way it’s a github url	19:06:51
Sofie 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)	also, rootless install through nixsa would be nice to have!	19:48:40
bandithedoge	real	19:49:12