Using deploy-rs from nixpkgs?

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I see that deploy-rs is part of nixpkgs now, but the github repo still refers to itself for a flake, and it includes helper functions in the flake.

So how are you supposed to use it? Still use the flake for configuration but only run the nixpkgs binary?

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It was also new to me that deploy-rs is in Nixpkgs.

I guess if you want to specify your own deployments, you still need to import the flake (is that so?). However, for the executable you can use the version in Nixpkgs! I guess the advantage of the Nixpkgs version is that it will be pre-built and more stable but updates may lag behind.

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So what I do now is pretty ugly; I needed the library code for the activation, but it included a reference to the deploy-rs in the flake, so I copied that to my flake and changed it to use the nixpkgs deploy-rs instead.

https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs/issues/163#issuecomment-1273392465