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		thomastjeffery on Dec 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” The neat thing about the functional design of Nix is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel: just make better steering. Everything about Nix can be trivially refactored. Every part is neatly isolated from the rest.

pxc on Dec 1, 2022 [–]

> Everything about Nix can be trivially refactored. Every part is neatly isolated from the rest.

Tweaking a few NixOS modules it replacing a package is easy, but neither the Nix codebase nor Nixpkgs is characterized by perfect modularity or uniform layering.

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