no mentioning of technical limitations of nix and flakes design #4
Description
Not sure, where these points would belong best. Some are fundamental (unfixable) problems, others chosen tradeoffs chosen for (relative) portability across unixoids.
Namely for nix:
- moving files into immutable nix store instead of creation of overlayfs due to posix performance and nesting limits
- namespace control tools
- package categories (missing metadata)
- portability
- debugging experience (tooling, documentation, best practice)
see also https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixos
Namely for flakes:
- dependency explosion problem
- system deps not inheritable
- slow for big repos
- no integration into nix ecosystem
- no way to add dependencies from outside git repo without git repo