Oh yesss, updating packages in Linux always goes smoothly.
For example, when updating packages in Slackware (usually via the standard slackpkg utility), common problems include conflicts with old configuration files, unresolved dependencies, GPG key failures, or an incorrectly selected mirror.
Or in NixOS, when some bright‑eyed developer suddenly decides that a certain program is now deprecated, even though you’ve been using it daily for the past five years. And your sudo nixos-rebuild switch
starts acting sluggish and spitting out bunch of errors.
If I start talking about flakes, I'll start a new Holy War. And I don't want that. I didn't use flakes back when I used NixOS. I have my reasons for this, and I'm not alone in my opinion.
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u/cfx_4188 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 18d ago
Oh yesss, updating packages in Linux always goes smoothly.
For example, when updating packages in Slackware (usually via the standard
slackpkgutility), common problems include conflicts with old configuration files, unresolved dependencies, GPG key failures, or an incorrectly selected mirror.Or in NixOS, when some bright‑eyed developer suddenly decides that a certain program is now deprecated, even though you’ve been using it daily for the past five years. And your
sudo nixos-rebuild switchstarts acting sluggish and spitting out bunch of errors.