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		Avamander on April 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect But the current NixOS approach is terrible for maintainers and developers, there are so many that get burnt out due to the constant churn and lack of regression prevention.

SkyMarshal on April 24, 2022 [–]

Can you elaborate on churn and regression prevention? Haven’t heard of those issues before, but I’m relatively new to Nix.

Avamander on April 25, 2022 | [–]

There have been multiple discussions on the topic, for example:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgss-current-development-w...

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