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do not encourage use of `nix-env`

Open fricklerhandwerk opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Beginners are consistently confused over nix-env, as it usually does not do what they want. Do not encourage it, provide declarative options instead.

Related:

  • https://stop-using-nix-env.privatevoid.net/
  • https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/17
  • https://discourse.nixos.org/t/depreciate-the-use-of-nix-env-to-install-packages/20139

fricklerhandwerk avatar Sep 09 '22 09:09 fricklerhandwerk

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/usability-study-session-2/21400/1

nixos-discourse avatar Sep 09 '22 10:09 nixos-discourse