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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by tkz1312 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:23AM (#37106933)
fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now.

https://repology.org/

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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by soraminazuki on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:49PM (#37111616)
I also like that packages in Nixpkgs goes through code review.
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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by kbknapp on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:00PM (#37113036)
How many of these are duplicates or just multiple versions though?
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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by pxc on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:11PM (#37113185)
Repology already attempts to account for that, and Nixpkgs normal policy is one version per package unless there are specific reasons for it to be otherwise. Nixpkgs doesn't duplicate packages just to have alternative build options or whatever like the AUR does.
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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by tkz1312 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:12PM (#37113908)
iiuc the “non unique” section on repology accounts for this. nixpkgs is almost twice the size of the aur if you count like this.
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