[pushtheenvelope]

Oh, it isn't intended to be provocative.

The title is simply literally the question that I was thinking about a few months ago when working on Devbox, and wrote a version of this post internally to answer the question for myself!

[seabass-labrax]

Ah, that's good to know :) It is just that I was expecting to read about some breaking news; that I missed that Nix deprecated channels or something! It is indeed a nice article explaining Flakes in general. Maybe "Why did Nix introduce Flakes?" might be a slightly better title for people coming with prior expectations like I did?

[pushtheenvelope]

s/adopt/introduce

done :)

[seabass-labrax]

Thank you; that was quick! :) I apologise if my original comment came across as rather harsh!

[pushtheenvelope]

idk, someone (moderator?) changed it back ...