Update the default nixpkgs to a rolling release #369
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what's the difference between this, unstable & master?
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I think this wiki page is the best resource we have ATM https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_channels#The_official_channels. Short but descriptive enough.
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Thanks! I would default to a non -small, since niv seems to be used by a lot of beginners that might get surprised if they have to rebuild packages from source; also this is what we've done so far. Wdyt?
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Done.
The current default is release-21.05, which is like master, ahead of hydra and therefore have some uncached thing still. Instead of release-21.05 there would have been nixos-21.05 and nixos-21.05-small, which are the versions after hydra advanced the channel.
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right though I agree with the choise of "nixos-unstable" as a default since that's what most users I can think of would be looking for.
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No strong opinion about -small. Just wanted to point out the difference between branches that are before and those that are after hydra.
For security reasons niv should not initialize with a potentially outdated nixpkgs, that won't receive updates when even when the user calls `niv update`.
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why nixos- and not nixpkgs-unstable? |
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good question CC @mweinelt ! |
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@mweinelt then I guess it makes sense to use |
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It really depends on the user and what they care about. NixOS users will want to use the |
For security reasons niv should not initialize with a potentially
outdated nixpkgs, that won't receive updates when even when the user
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niv update.Case in point: NixOS/nixpkgs#227804 (comment)