In reply to@charmonium:matrix.org
I'm a little bit confused on the difference between registries and channels, and which are considered immutable

In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
Your confusion is understandable, because this is, imho, a major design flaw in the flake registry. Unlike channels the online flake registry doesn't even require a user command to mutate, it simply does

this is my favorite commentary on the mutable state hidden in the Nix registry:

 nix.settings.flake-registry = __toFile "begone-evil.json" (__toJSON { flakes = [ ]; version = 2; });

In reply to @axolotl:the-apothecary.club
could someone explain why the expression at https://codeberg.org/shitpostalotl/bespoke/src/branch/main/pkgs/greenfield.nix#L7 evaluates to false? the situation is that a flake input representing greenfield's source repo is passed as an arg to the derivation as fsrc. as you can see, i'm trying to reference a file in the source repo by path. however, fsrc always evaluates to a nonexistant "nix" subdirectory in the source, while any functions which take it as an argument always return the store path of that flake instead of fsrc

In reply to @twitchy0:matrix.org
does packageJSON = "${fsrc}/package.json"; work?