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Comment by jbboehr | Hacker News Reader

> Hunting down every commit hash of every package to pin down the exact version is neither maintainable nor scalable

I believe flakes will make this a lot easier, but it's not quite here yet.

> I believe flakes will make this a lot easier

Somewhat, I guess? It will apparently let you write this:

  {
    inputs = {
      home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
    };
  }

where you can manually point to a specific commit/branch for a tool.

Better than nothing, I guess :)

In terms of version pinning, flakes are essentially just an in-tree equivalent of niv, I will say.