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Very good explanation. It's an often overlooked property of NixOS and why I often feel like Nix on other systems is an okay way to get packages but you're missing out on all the good stuff you get through the modules, like losing 95% of what makes the concept good.
I don't think NixOS is the best possible solution to the problem, but it's the only original distribution that even tries to tackle it instead of just working around it.
Well, apart of GUIX of course ;)
It's sort of a conceptual fork of Nix but the actual implementation is all original.
I thought so too but learned recently that Guix system is nix under the hood, basically translates everything, so it's more than a conceptual fork though obviously some more work went into it than your average Ubuntu fork.
https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/
They used to use the nix-daemon to realise derivations but that too was replaced original software at some point I believe. Everything else has been guix own tooling for a long time.
They still use the same derivation file format (.drv) and the basic concepts are the same ("conceptual fork"), so you could theoretically be able to realise a derivation produced by guix using nix-daemon/nix-store but that's about it as far as similarities go.
If you don't believe me, go take a look at the source code. I promise you won't find a single line of C++ in it, only a ton of parenthesis ;))))