@thufschmitt I completely agree that some CLI commands are tied to flakes but others are not — or only indirectly via flake “installables” syntax. I still don’t see any reason we cannot stabilize the parts that are not directly tied to Flakes first.

Which means that I’m quite anxious at the idea of trying to stabilize the CLI without flakes as it would be very hard to provide something nice and consistent.

• It is perfectly OK if the CLI without Flakes isn’t nice!

• That full unstable CLI is still there, and we can make sure it is consistent with or without Flakes.

Being able to just run nix run nixpkgs#hello is magical, and that’s to a large part tied to the design of flakes.

OK