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The Nix community RFCs

64 mentions on Hacker News by 39 people: 3 stories, 61 comments · first 2018-11-03 · latest 2026-08-08

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  1. …a new RFC. At any rate, I would be surprised if the new CLI with flakes are close to release. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49
    comment by danieldk · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
  2. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 proposes lots and lots of symlinks in a way that reminds me of GoboLinux :).
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-02-02 · in GoboLinux
  3. …is a very important point when adding such a bot, otherwise the user will be left helpless. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/51 [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/92254
    comment by pingiun · 2021-01-18 · in GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
  4. …merges it) and because committers rarely reject packages for being to much of a fringe package. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/80
    comment by danieldk · 2020-12-11 · in On the Whole CentOS Thing
  5. …months. I haven't done a clean install at all the last few years since I started using NixOS. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/59#issuecomment-624723733
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-11-09 · in One Week of NixOS
  6. …lot closer to reproducible builds by making non-determinstic builds far more noticiable. See these: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4087
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-09-29 · in Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
  7. …distribution if they fix the Channel system. One fix I'm particularly fond of is flakes. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49
    comment by threwawasy1228 · 2020-05-02 · in Operating Systems Without Systemd
  8. …a nix CLI 2.0 which is much better, and a new uddating mechanism that is way easier to understand: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49 This gives me hope things are getting better. Also recently I funded a project for improving error…
    comment by arianvanp · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS
  9. You want https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 . I'm very eager to see it done this year (ideally earlier but don't want to jinx myself).
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-02-11 · in I Was Wrong about Nix
  10. …issue/pull request situation by letting some of the namespaces move out of the main repository. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49
    comment by T-R · 2019-10-20 · in Attempting to Use GNU Guix
  11. > Viva la monorepo. Absolutely. Look at edolstra take on this though https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49#discussion_r305450668 This is why I'm scared of this change.
    comment by Apaec · 2019-07-21 · in Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities
  12. That's mentioned by edolstra in a comment on the proposal. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49#discussion_r305450668
    comment by Apaec · 2019-07-21 · in Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities
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    story by based2 · 2019-07-20 · 52 comments
  14. …use case until some concept of VCS signing, and review/release integrity is in place. See: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/d178f63f9a588e463fdc07551...
    comment by lrvick · 2018-11-03 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution