--- title: Relocatable Derivations | daily.dev description: A blog post exploring the concept of 'relocatable derivations' — using the guix-transfer tool to move Nix/Guix derivations between different store prefixes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/relocatable-derivations-vtnnukaxa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Relocatable Derivations | daily.dev og:description: A blog post exploring the concept of 'relocatable derivations' — using the guix-transfer tool to move Nix/Guix derivations between different store prefixes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/relocatable-derivations-vtnnukaxa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VtnNuKaXa.png og:image:alt: Relocatable Derivations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Relocatable Derivations **[Farid Zakaria’s Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/fzakaria)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A blog post exploring the concept of 'relocatable derivations' — using the guix-transfer tool to move Nix/Guix derivations between different store prefixes (realms) such as alpha, beta, and prod environments. The author argues that derivations themselves, not Nix expressions, should be the source of truth for deployments. This enables a 'plan-based deployment' model where the build graph is treated as a portable artifact, eliminating the need to re-evaluate Nix expressions against each environment and avoiding evaluation-time impurities or source code dependencies. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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