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Use nixpkgs as name of the channel for example how to install it #201

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garbas opened this issue Oct 1, 2020 · 2 comments
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Use nixpkgs as name of the channel for example how to install it #201

garbas opened this issue Oct 1, 2020 · 2 comments
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garbas commented Oct 1, 2020

and mention nixos channel in case you are on NixOS

More from the twitter discussion https://twitter.com/zekjur/status/1311617711068377089
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Specific replies that deserve attention (also because Twitter makes them hard to browse):

https://twitter.com/ioPhileas/status/1311581193062830080

True, I'd be happy if it would say: "channel nixos not found, available channels: nixpkgs"

https://twitter.com/domenkozar/status/1311567418033045505

We're running a campaign to improve such error messages https://opencollective.com/nix-errors-enhancement

In short, it's due to channels abstraction anti-pattern that is going away in Nix 3.

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resolved by #261

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