Why must I manually specify the default package?

[mrlobo]

Okay, it seems to be just the way it is. It’s just a mismatch of expectations. Found this thread talking about the same ‘problem’:

Flakes referencing other flakes

As far as I understand, basically the arcan input in your example will contain the result of evaluating the outputs function of the arcan flake (and it works this way for every flake), with the additional property that if you try to use it as a string, a flake will evaluate to a path containing the contents of the repository that contains the flake. The reason that you have to specifically use arcan.defaultPackage.x86_64-linux, rather than just arcan, is actually quite useful, because for some …