My biggest blog post yet, and it’s about running (almost) vanilla NixOS on a (formerly) Android phone! This was 50% fun and 50% exhausting… you solve one issue and another one crops up right away… it was certainly an interesting educational experience.
I’m not explaining any basic technical concepts here, as I’m not a complete noob in phone ROMs and Linux.
Ask me any questions if you have them!
Thanks for the detailed response.
So nixpkgs is more akin to the AUR, then a binary repository? The AUR is also just build scripts.
yes, if that AUR was in a centralized git repository, and kept track of inter-package compatibility, and centrally cached prebuilt versions of the packages for every single update, and you could also easily modify any of the packages, and there was a way to autogenerate build scripts, and and and…