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    They cover a few things – most notably they replace channels, which are imperative.

    Unless I’m way off, you can also install user software through flakes if you add them as inputs. That’s what I’m doing with Musnix.

    You can also pull a repo and ‘nix run .#software’ from the command-line, without entering a shell. That’s how I’m using NixifiedAI.

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      They cover a few things – most notably they replace channels, which are imperative.

      True. I never considered channels imperative, but rather a purity issue. But I guess this is a matter of perspective.

      Unless I’m way off, you can also install user software through flakes if you add them as inputs.

      I don’t know about this, but that doesn’t mean anything.

      You can also pull a repo and ‘nix run .#software’ from the command-line, without entering a shell.

      True, though this by default only runs the default binary, and you’re probably in a shell anyways, so it doesn’t save that much. Also that output is, to my knowledge, not protected by garbage collection. But my knowledge of any imperative stuff is minimal, so I don’t know if that’s the case there.

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        I don’t know about this, but that doesn’t mean anything.

        Why doesn’t it mean anything? You add the flake as an input (declarative) and then add the software to your config (also declarative).

        I’m not arguing that it’s better, or saves time, just that it takes things that were done imperatively, and makes them declarative.

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          I meant that just because I don’t know about it doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible.

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            Oh gotcha, sorry.

            For what it’s worth, I’m still reasonably new to NixOS (but not Linux) so it’s entirely possible I’m way off base.