• > Nixpkgs Manual. Version 23.11pre. ... Nix expressions describe how to build packages from source and are collected in the nixpkgs repository.
  • Choose from Thousands of Packages. The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of over 100 000 packages for the Nix package manager.
  • 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.).
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  • Nixpkgs is the largest repository of Nix packages and NixOS modules. ... There are a number of articles especially related to working with nixpkgs
  • nixpkgs.news. @Infinisil has updated the community on the Nix Constitutional Assembly, pertaining to the target date, public repository, office hours, and interviews.
  • Nixpkgs (pronounced "Nix packages") is a big collection of Nix expressions, packages (who'd have thought...), and build utilities for the Nix ecosystem.
  • Let’s do something more interesting with our flake.nix by adding the nixpkgs input: The nixpkgs flake has an output called legacyPackages...
  • Found the documentation lacking? I tried here to make a simple, straight forward guide going through all the steps of adding your package to nixpkgs, Let’s start!
  • Nixpkgs describes how to build tens of thousands of pieces of software and implements a Linux distribution.
  • 2.1 Nixpkgs. 3 Projects using Nix. ... Nixpkgs is developed in a single Git repository on GitHub.[14] Beside packages, it also contains the source code for NixOS.