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[–] 3 points 1 year ago*

Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24

And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps:

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#stable_vs_mainline

How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file?

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