don't show nix-channel in upgrade instructions
#9703
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channels make everything more stateful, and therefore more complicated and potentially confusing, but aren't needed for this task, so don't encourage their use.
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Doesn't this mean that after upgrading you need to type or copy paste extra parameters for every command? e.g. instead of:
you use:
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As I noted in #9679, these instructions should use
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Ericson2314
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nix-channel in upgrade instructions
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Discussed during the Nix maintainers meeting on 2024-01-22. Approved and merged.
- Doesn't remove nix channels as a concept, but does remove `nix-channel` command
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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2024-01-22-nix-team-meeting-minutes-117/38838/1 |
Motivation
follow-up to #9679 by @wiki-me
Tested all instructions, in
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channels make everything more stateful, and therefore more complicated and potentially confusing, but aren't needed for this task, so don't encourage their use.
Tested instructions on Ubuntu and macOS, fairly easy now thanks to @MatthewCroughan's NixThePlanet!
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