Comment by pdimitar
Surface-level feedback: get rid of the word "derivation". Surely there must be a better way to describe the underlying thing...
Surface-level feedback: get rid of the word "derivation". Surely there must be a better way to describe the underlying thing...
I'm 80% finished moving all of my servers from NixOS to Debian. I used NixOS for 3 years (even wrote some custom flakes) before finally giving up (for the final year I was just too scared to touch it, and then said "I shouldn't be scared of my OS"). I should know what "derivation" means, but I can't for the life of me remember...
What’s wrong with it? It’s a term of art that means a specific thing in both nix and guix; it’d just be confusing if zb renamed it to something else.