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# Towards reproducibility: pinning Nixpkgs

In various Nix examples, you'll often see references to [\<nixpkgs>](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs), as follows.
In various Nix examples, you'll often see the following:

```nix
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
...
```

:::{note}
`<nixpkgs>` points to the file system path of some revision of {term}`Nixpkgs`.
Find more information on [lookup paths](lookup-path-tutorial) in [](reading-nix-language).
:::

This is a **convenient** way to quickly demonstrate a Nix expression and get it working by importing Nix packages.

However, <ref-search-path>**the resulting Nix expression is not fully reproducible**.
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