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> nixpkgs is already one of the largest package collections. There is a good chance your software is already included. Yes, but that still doesn't solve this: > Major problems: installing niche proprietary software that you may have to package yourself If some software _isn't_ packaged, it's a pain in the butt to get it running on NixOS. Either you have to create Nix derivations, which have a pretty steep learning cu…
I run NixOS, but I'm relatively new to Nix. A couple weeks ago I was trying to get an old vanity key generator to build because it wasn't on nixpkgs (vanitygen++) and on a lark I decided to write my own derivation using some examples of similar C++ packages I found and figuring out what nix packages it needed to build. So I did, and the maintainer accepted the PR: https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus/commit/7b…
Re: NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
#201Would be cool to get new packages like this on nixpkgs.