• blotz@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh that’s good that they are addressing those issues with a new command. Hopefully it gets into stable soon.

    Might be that nix-env -iA is bad practice! I’m strictly talking about ux design here and nix-env -iA is being recommend by blogs and nix themselves. (Nixpkgs tells you how to install using nix-env -iA)

    A new user isn’t going to know what bad practice is.

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      9 months ago

      It actually recommends using nix-env -i, which is even worse because with that command it searches the whole repository instead of just getting the correct attribute on nixpkgs. It takes half a minute to run the command, it’s insane.