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That's a really hacky method and should not be in the manual tbh.
You should be able to update by "installing" your env again though.
It's a bit overkill but for declarative package management under non-NixOS, I use home-manager's
home.packages
option. It does essentially this but wraps it in a nice package and home-manager can do a lot of other things too.As for flakes: No, you don't require them to do any of this. They solve an entirely different problem.
I second home-manager, it was my Nix gateway drug and I can't recommend it enough!
That's why I'm asking, it seemed really odd.
Thanks, this makes a lot more sense. Any good resources besides the wiki? Is there a way to break down home.packages into smaller chunks for modularity?
So they're just to ensure reproducibility?
home-manager uses the NixOS module system, so you can use everything that comes with it, like
imports
That and for easier importing of other people's Nix code
Nice, thanks