Nixpkgs package badges

[vcunat]

Getting off topic, but I don’t think that flakes should become the default installation way. Or generally any way where the whole dependency tree is manually hard-pinned.

Say, will individual package maintainers really maintain and update their whole dependency trees? (and users pulling them) Or will it be common for these to contain security issues that could’ve been fixed for months?

[iFreilicht]

I agree, this feels like it will be a longer discussion. I created a new topic for it:

Should nix flakes become the default installation method for packages?

Following up on the discussion from https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-package-badges/29056/ as I think this is an interesting topic that would derail the topic there. (To define the scope a little, I’m only talking about the vision for the future here, I know that flakes are not going to be stabilized for some time still and won’t become any sort of default before that) I see what you mean. If you use flakes inside other flakes, this is resolved by .follows, but when installing on the com…

[dch82]

I just realised, wouldn’t the Built with Nix badges work just fine to replace ‘Compatible with Nix’?