- Nixpkgs describes how to build over 40,000 pieces of software and implements a Linux distribution. The GitHub Insights page gives a sense of the project activity.
- path was an attribute from the early days of rules_nixpkgs, and its ability to reference arbitrary paths is a danger to build hermeticity.
- Nixpkgs is among the most active projects on GitHub. While thousands of open issues and pull requests might seem a lot at first, it helps consider it in the context...
- rippkgs-index evaluates all of nixpkgs, taking special measures to prevent failures in most cases. For every attribute available in nixpkgs...
- Nixpkgs: A community-maintained package lock file for all of Unix. avaq profile. Aldwin Vlasblom. ... 4 min read. Contributing to nixpkgs. rawkode profile.
- Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to the files in this repository (the Nix expressions, build scripts, NixOS modules, etc.).
- Nixpkgs is among the most active projects on GitHub. While thousands of open issues and pull requests might seem a lot at first, it helps consider it in the context...
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- <nixpkgs> is a Nix expression that is evaluated by looking at the Nix search path in the NIX_PATH environment variable and/or -I option.