Requesting adding `nix flake update` to regular chores

[voidarclabs]

Hi, Nix user here.

Due to the way flakes work, there is no real easy way to override the flake.lock file provided by a repo like this. This means that when I update this repo, the packages that are installed are being grabbed from 4 months ago. In the short term, this is annoying, as I am wasting storage on packages that don't need to be installed twice for the purpose of the app, and in the long term, if there are any breaking changes in the dependancies, this will prevent the nix derivation from building.
I wish to request, for convenience, that the flake be updated on a semi regular basis. Every few weeks is fine for the average user, as this repo is not on nixpkgs unstable. I believe you can make a github action to do this every week or so, just so it is consistent.

Love the project, keep up the good work!

[AceSLS]

Thanks for the detailed write up. Personally I don't know anything about nix myself since the flake was contributed by someone else. I can look into creating an action to do that but don't wait for me, who knows when I'll get to that.

[DeveloperMikey]

Hello!

How are you defining the flake in your inputs? The flake should use the nixpkgs instance that you tell it to, if you tell it to.
The intended way:

sls-steam = {
  url = "github:AceSLS/SLSsteam";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

[nahieluniversal]

I personally use this workaround; follow any distro instructions and then add this to configuration.nix (this works with millennium too as long as you change the pkgs.steam to pkgs.millennium-steam

programs.steam.package = pkgs.steam.override {
      extraEnv = {
        LD_AUDIT = "/home/(user)/.local/share/SLSsteam/library-inject.so:/home/(user)/.local/share/SLSsteam/SLSsteam.so";
      };