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Nix flakes vaugely analogous to Docker Compose? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by clemmyzemmy@sopuli.xyz to c/nix@programming.dev
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Howdy y'all non-developer trying to understand nix flakes.

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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

With docker, the built product is containerized. With a flake, the end product goes into the nix store directory, and may be used in another package, or available to run, or be used in a service, or all the above.