I've also noticed this. If you install `rustc` it says that you get `rust-gdb`, but that's really just a wrapper script around `gdb`, which it doesn't install.
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https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/nix-from-first-principles-flake-ed...
The second link appears to be down at the moment so check back later.
I think the most common use case is as a build system, but in this context you aren't limited to building packages, you can also build "environments". By "environments" I mean a shell with certain packages available in `$PATH`. You would use Nix like other build systems in the sense that you specify the build requirements (which other packages, libraries, etc you need to build _your_ stuff), then you specify how exactly to build your stuff. Here "stuff" could be as little as a shell script or as much a huge monorepo.
There are ways to use Nix like you would use Ansible or Terraform, but I wouldn't say that's the mainstream use case of Nix.