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 I wrote an answer from the perspective of a #NixOS user to a recent request for comments by #CISA about software identifiers. 

It's now published here: https://tweag.io/blog/2024-03-12-nix-as-software-identifier/ 
 I keep saying that "rollback" is an overrated feature. And i stand by that in the general case. I... 
 @c2f9cd0a I think the ability to rollback is _very_ difficult to overrate. Even if you never actually do it, just the ability takes away much of the fear of updating. This leads to updating more often. And that has a ton of other implications, e.g. that updates are in smaller, that you diverge less from current main,... . This has more transitive implications such as that updates that aren't as easy to rollback (eg involving state) become safer and easier to manage because they are smaller.