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Re:Show HN: Nixhub.io – Search Historical Versions of Nix Pa... by I_am_tiberius on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:11PM (#36767358)
Why is it necessary to have two platforms then? https://search.nixos.org/packages could just add older packages as well, right?
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Re:Show HN: Nixhub.io – Search Historical Versions of Nix Pa... by jljljl on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:21AM (#36767768)
I suppose they could, but for various reasons they haven’t.

We originally built this for Devbox users because it was a common request, and realized that it could help Nix users as well.

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