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This ensures that flakes don't get garbage-collected, which is important to get nix-channel-like behaviour. For example, running $ nix build hydra: will create a GC root ~/.cache/nix/flake-closures/hydra -> /nix/store/xarfiqcwa4w8r4qpz1a769xxs8c3phgn-flake-closure where the contents/references of the linked file in the store are the flake source trees used by the 'hydra' flake: /nix/store/n6d5f5lkpfjbmkyby0nlg8y1wbkmbc7i-source /nix/store/vbkg4zy1qd29fnhflsv9k2j9jnbqd5m2-source /nix/store/z46xni7d47s5wk694359mq9ay353ar94-source Note that this in itself is not enough to allow offline use; the fetcher for the flakeref (e.g. fetchGit or downloadCached) must not fail if it cannot fetch the latest version of the file, so long as it knows a cached version. Issue #2868.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.