I'm a casual nixpkgs contributor. Flakes are like the embassies Nix sends out into the OSS world. Discussion about building the application are kept with the application, nuances and patches can be discussed with the actual authors.
Remember the debian SSH packaging snafu? The application authors weren't involved. (edit: see below)
Nixpkgs is like the state department, a central unifying hub, great to bootstrap the package ecosystem (ten years old now), but it needs to spread its wings.
Remember the debian SSH packaging snafu? The application authors weren't involved. (edit: see below)
Nixpkgs is like the state department, a central unifying hub, great to bootstrap the package ecosystem (ten years old now), but it needs to spread its wings.