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The nix reference for packages is <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs">nixpkgs</link>, a single repository of all descriptions of all packages. I find this approach very natural and attractive for new contributions.
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For the rest is chapter, we will adopt the single repository technique. The natural implementation in Nix is to create a top-level Nix expression, and one expression for each package. The top-level expression imports and combines all expressions in a giant attribute set with name -> package pairs.
For the rest of this chapter, we will adopt the single repository technique. The natural implementation in Nix is to create a top-level Nix expression, and one expression for each package. The top-level expression imports and combines all expressions in a giant attribute set with name -> package pairs.
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But isn't that heavy? It isn't, because Nix is a lazy language, it evaluates only what's needed! And that's why <literal>nixpkgs</literal> is able to maintain such a big software repository in a giant attribute set.