| 9 Mar 2025 |
 elikoga | What is the path of least resistance to getting a lock file? Using the built in lock file management.
I must admit, the shilling can go on my nerves too, but as far as I can tell, that's why there is a low lack of understanding accross the entire nix ecosystem. Getting users acquainted with configuration.nix first may be very easy but it can lead to a large population of users unfamiliar with what they are doing | 15:24:53 |
|  hexa joined the room. | 15:26:44 |
| elikoga | * What is the path of least resistance to getting a lock file? Using the built in lock file management.
I must admit, the shilling can go on my nerves too, but as far as I can tell, that's why there is a lack of understanding accross the entire nix ecosystem. Getting users acquainted with configuration.nix first may be very easy but it can lead to a large population of users unfamiliar with what they are doing | 15:27:41 |
| elikoga | I am sorry for my crass language yet the other side can call the feature "a stain" on the language I am allowed to swear a little bit when complaining about a lack of solutions given | 15:29:53 |
 emily | I think it's not productive to discuss this further unless you want to retract "all the arguments I can see going against this are bad-faith, non-users, agitators, that deliberately misrepresent the technical state", which seems to have been based more on your own ignorance of the technical state than mine | 15:33:26 |
| emily | I haven't participated in any mud-slinging myself, so I don't think you have any reason to be like this when I'm trying to engage against my better judgement | 15:34:03 |
| hexa | https://discourse.nixos.org/t/experimental-does-not-mean-unstable-detsyss-perspective-on-nix-flakes/32703/2 is another post that summarizes existing issues with flakes | 15:37:33 |
