Request backports or use unstable?

[waffle8946]

@nulleric

why?

I hinted at it in The Myth of Stable Unstable - #10 by waffle8946

@waffle8946

I will add another caveat to this - mixing stable and unstable is pretty much unsupported, so you are even more on your own* than using just one channel exclusively. And of course having multiple nixpkgs instances comes with its own performance and incompatibility problems, especially for GUI apps and “core” dependencies - complaints around glibc or qt version mismatches are common here.

It’s an unfortunate side effect of some of the remaining impurities in NixOS like the graphics stack.

It’s also just a net benefit for the community if the backport request comes through and stable gets more up-to-date packages (assuming no breaking changes).