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0 pointshakre3y ago0 comments

AFAIK you don't have to use flakes. Same as it's fine to only use shell.nix. No system is for eternity, nix builds are deterministically cached, often never reproduced, so I see no strong arguments against using direnv with shell.nix.

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striking3y ago

No, we don't have to use them, but they have lots of advantages and lots of support from the community that we just can't tap into.

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