| 30 Nov 2025 |
 raitobezarius | It's going to be very very progressive | 18:47:12 |
| raitobezarius | (and yes this means that plugins will gain the ability to extend the REPL) | 18:49:52 |
| raitobezarius | (or the nix3 CLI itself) | 18:50:03 |
 WeetHet | How would nix3 cli function without flakes? | 18:53:41 |
 niklaskorz | if you specify a file with -f it works on normal nix files instead of flakes | 19:02:06 |
| WeetHet | Yeah but nix3 cli with -f is just strictly worse than nix2 cli? | 19:02:34 |
| niklaskorz | well that wasn't your question | 19:03:14 |
| niklaskorz | I too prefer nix-build when working with normal files :D | 19:03:49 |
| WeetHet | What's the point in leaving nix3 CLI in Lix if it would be there strictly so that an external plugin would work | 19:04:00 |
| niklaskorz | (or nom-build, for that matter) | 19:04:04 |
| niklaskorz | there are some more or less agreed upon improvements to be made I think, like defaulting to default.nix if no flake.nix is found (or if no flake plugin is enabled I suppose) | 19:05:11 |
| niklaskorz | and then interpreting the list of installables as attributes, so nix build foobar would be equivalent to nix-build -A foobar | 19:06:05 |
| WeetHet | What is the advantage to doing that instead of just working with nix2 cli? | 19:06:36 |
| WeetHet | * What is the advantage in doing that instead of just working with nix2 cli? | 19:07:27 |
 just1602 | Having a unified CLI? | 19:12:16 |
| WeetHet | By unified CLI do you understand nix smth instead of nix-smth? If yes, just creating aliases would work | 19:13:28 |
| WeetHet | I don't see why nix3 CLI which is inherently flawed should stay in Lix | 19:13:50 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | nix3 cli feels more thought out in terms of options and other bits, as someone who got introduced to nix after it was already in | 19:13:46 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | though I get to probably fine comb the documentation vs the code reality, so will be able to support this feeling hopefully at some point | 19:14:18 |
| WeetHet | If Lix wants a better CLI then nix3 is definitely not better | 19:14:22 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | lix cli with actually full consistency when | 19:16:07 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | (and yes I know we actually have some ideas for this floating around) | 19:16:23 |
