Every now and then I see a program that doesn’t have a default.nix or flake.nix in the source, doesn’t have an entry in nixpkgs, and otherwise can’t find a derivation for. So I write them myself.

What’s the best way to share these? Should I contribute to nixpkgs? (does this count if I’m making flakes?) Do I maintain a single repo for each program? Or do I create a repo with a collection of flakes? Something else?

  • Silver GoldenA
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    51 year ago

    Maybe try submitting patches to the source project or nixpkgs?

    • @rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOP
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      11 year ago

      I’ve thought about submitting to the source but I imagine that dumping two files in the root directory for a build tool that the devs don’t use or even know about is a hard PR to get merged. But maybe that’s not even the optimal way to distribute flakes, and it ought to be in a different place altogether, like nixpkgs or flakehub.

    • @rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOP
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      11 year ago

      I’m only just now looking at publishing on flakehub. It does look like many users can point at individual repositories that just package external software. It looks like this encourages a repository for each application. Thanks for suggesting.

    • @rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOP
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      11 year ago

      This is certainly an option, just wondering whats done most in practice. Right now this is what my own flakes do.