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Apart from a slight simplification and a bit of dogfooding, this also
make the cache behavior more predictable.
For example `nix build .` and `nix build nix/$(git rev-parse HEAD)` will
yield the exact same path, while their “intuitive” non-flake equivalents
(`nix-build` and
`nix-build https://github.com/nixos/nix/archives/$(git rev-parse HEAD).tar.gz`)
don’t.

This was a pain for example in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5059

Also, the `bar-with-logs` log format is imho nicer (even in an
non-interactive context) because prefixing each log line with the name
of the derivation that produced it makes it much easier to follow what’s
going on.
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Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.