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What other approaches do folks use to deterministically customize Linux?

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally I use flakes.

On the work we use an abomination that creates flake.lock but then parses it and uses to pin versions, it took me a while to realise this is why setting a flake input to something local never seemed to have any effect, for instance

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm using flakes as well, so that abomination sounds terrifying...

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think, it's based on an old flake-compat package or something. It's not inherently bad, but it displays what I dislike the most about Nix design, it's very opaque and magical until you go out of your way to understand it.

The globals are another example of this, I know I can do with something; [ other ] but I am never sure if other comes from something or not. And if it's a package parameter, the values also come seemingly out of nowhere.