jgart <jgart@dismail.de> anaandika:

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>> Sometimes nix has a package that guix doesn't have and it might take a long time to package it for Guix properly so I just install it immediately with nix (think escape hatch).
>
> The same goes for any other package manager (e.g. pip, xbps, apt, npm, etc...). This is not an exclusive technique I use only with nix. I'm a consumer of packages. Guix keeps me honest, though. 

Ah I see.  For me that's been the upstream Arch or
AUR.

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