[Nix-dev] Better support for channels in nixos

[Matthew O'Gorman]

Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> writes:

> We can (and do) backport new services to stable releases.

  Not trying to argue, but the example I gave still stands? The service
  was not back ported.
>
> For "Another example would be I am developing a service that I want to test
> on my system" I don't really understand what you're trying to say.
>
  The other example, say I ported an application to nixos, like huginn,
  and I want to test it on my system easily.

  A third example would be a package that moves ridiculously quickly,
  like gitlab, stable is on 8.5, unstable is on 8.10, the current
  release is 8.11.

  I think it would be easier to maintain a system if I could have point
  to multiple places for channels, and then in the install specifically
  describe which provider I want to use.
  
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