> period nix-darwin and nixpkgs would fall out of sync
What do you mean? Those should be fairly independent in practice.
In practice nix-darwin relies on being a drop in, which means maintaining compatibility with api surface which in the proper nixpkgs world is a closed loop. There are several cases of this breaking since 2020 or so.
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In practice nix-darwin relies on being a drop in, which means maintaining compatibility with api surface which in the proper nixpkgs world is a closed loop. There are several cases of this breaking since 2020 or so.