Comment by soraminazuki
Comment by soraminazuki 4 days ago
Even proper packaging is far easier compared to other package managers. Typical distros push users away from packaging their own software, so users end up relying on ad-hoc solutions instead. Nix instead makes packaging easier by having proper tools to abstract away the nitty gritty details.
For random binaries, autoPatchelfHook works miracles.
It wasn’t that bad creating some new derivations my first week with Nixos, I was so used to Arch where I had maybe a handful modified pkgbuilds over a decade.
For better or worse it was a positive experience, especially when you usually already have a pkgbuild to go off of.