Technical Debt on Nostr: I mean the “unstable” name is almost misleading, it is close to the stability of ...

I mean the “unstable” name is almost misleading, it is close to the stability of a rolling release distro.

But the point I wanted to make is that you can always cherry pick one very specific thing from unstable or some other alternative nixpkgs repository and bolt on top of a system based on a stable, tagged release.

Suppose there’s this PR with a newly packaged piece of software, you can add that branch/repo as an second nixpkgs input (if you are using flakes) or channel and use overlays to “integrate” the thing you are looking for, without conflicting with anything else you have on your system.