TL;DR: There is no Nix-native way of doing that. In this post I describe the process that led to the creation of Nix Package Versions, the tool that provides this functionality. The problem The Nix package manager allows one to easily install and remove different versions of the same package. With nix-shell one can even start a shell environment with a different version of a package that is already installed. This is extremely useful and one of Nix’s killer features. Some time ago I noticed...
