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How do I share my flakes for external projects? (lm.paradisus.day)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe try submitting patches to the source project or nixpkgs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well it's just two files, and it doesn't touch anything else. I think they might welcome it more than you think