default.nix: say which old Nix version is being used#435683
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We are hitting a long tail of problems at work related to old nix-direnv sneaking old nix versions in that would be fixed by nix-community/nix-direnv#513, except that the issue is that nix-direnv itself is too old. It would at least be very helpful to print out *what* ancient nix version is at fault.
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LGTM, would hardly fail due to the fallback.
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We are hitting a long tail of problems at work related to old nix-direnv sneaking old nix versions in that would be fixed by nix-community/nix-direnv#513, except that the issue is that nix-direnv itself is too old.
It would at least be very helpful to print out what ancient nix version is at fault.
Tested by messing with minver and confirming it evals to something pretty.
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