• knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      No.

      But Arch supports around 14,000 packages and any branch of Nix has around 100,000 stable and 100,000 unstable packages.

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        1 year ago

        How the fuck does Nix have so many. And who’s packaging them all.

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          1 year ago

          If what I hear it’s true than once a NixOS user is up and running adding additional packages and up-streaming them appears to be a fairly simple process.

          Something like Arch has ~10,000 packages in the main repo and the AUR has ~70,000 packages. It’s hard to get something into the Arch repo, very easy to get something into the AUR. NixOS seems like it may be a middle ground where by the time someone can grok the system they should only be a step or two away from contributing to it.

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          I’m sure it’s a factor. I don’t use Nix but from what I gather the easiest way to run a package is often to add it, and upstream are pretty accepting. The number isn’t that wild if you compare it to something like Arch+AUR. Also Nix wants to do it all and replace stuff like pyp and other native package managers, I think pyp alone is responsible for >5000 nixpkgs.

          If you are counting different versions then it’s hundreds of thousands…and I think you can mix and match them.

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      I’m assuming you mean the ability to run an AUR-helper and automagically install from PKGBUILDs; in which case, the answer is no. IMHO, lack of AUR access isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be since Flatpak covers a good portion of what I have downloaded from the AUR in the past.

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      NixOS, package availability is comparable to Arch with the AUR. Arch has a total of about 80-90 thousand packages (That is, the regular repos + the AUR), and NixOS has over 80,000 packages in its own repos, that are actually maintained, and are more up to date than Arch (meanwhile, Arch often has a bunch of outdated and unmaintained packages in the AUR, such as all the Waybar packages that haven’t been touched since April (there was a new release in June).