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Nix packaging, the heretic way
Nix packaging, the heretic way.
One difficulty when using Nix is that it’s possible to hit a purity wall. A dependency is not in nixpkgs (yet), and you have to package it yourself. But the project does some impure things during the build. It’s using some esoteric language that doesn’t have a 2nix tool yet.
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