https://freerangebits.com/tags/radicle/ Recent content in Radicle on Free Range Bits Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:25:20 +0200 https://freerangebits.com/posts/2026/09/decentralized-flake-inputs/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:25:20 +0200 https://freerangebits.com/posts/2026/09/decentralized-flake-inputs/ <p>I have been thinking for a few weeks about how sad it is that we&rsquo;ve taken a distributed version control system like Git and forced it to be centralized in Nix. This is especially true with regards to Flake inputs.</p> <p>If a forge like GitHub goes down then <code>nix build</code> will break, even though the same repository may be available elsewhere. While you can use the <code>--override-input</code> option to work around this, it gets quite messy to replace all of your repositories this way.</p> <p>A better solution would be to use something like <a href="https://radicle.dev/" target="_blank">Radicle</a> to fetch the repository from the first available peer. Git can already using a <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/gitremote-helpers" target="_blank">helper program</a> to fetch remote repositories. However, Nix doesn&rsquo;t support this and a <a href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10567" target="_blank">2024 PR</a> to add support has stalled.</p> <p>Perhaps <a href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/decentralized-flake-inputs/80197" target="_blank">the community</a> has a solution to this problem.</p>