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Nix/NixOS files often break due to Nix pkg maintainers not caring about keeping support for existing configuration formats. I experience a breakage roughly every 2 weeks when a variable/package gets renamed or changed.


I stopped tracking unstable for this reason. And hey—fair enough I guess. The name should have been a sign.


At least it breaks during evaluation most of the time, and rolling back is super easy if it broke after activation.

Also, it seems like you're using unstable if you're having that many breakages, sooo kinda asking for it?




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