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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by tkz1312 on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:52AM (#39000977)
I don’t follow. Non-unique packages is a metric that explicitly only includes packages that are present across multiple distros?
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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by rowanG077 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @11:26AM (#39043720)
A package is non-unique if it is available in at least 2 repositories. Guess what. Repology tracks Guix as well which means many packages will be just in those two repos, marking them as non-unique.

If you want a non-misleading comparison you have to remove all these packages, which are actually managed by a different package manager every. from nixpkgs and put that into repology.

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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by tkz1312 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:39PM (#39073207)
You can remove the entirety of the guix package set (26468) from the non-unique part of nixpkgs (71875) and it would still be the largest non-unique package set (second largest non-unique is AUR at 37900).
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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by rowanG077 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:30AM (#39079906)
Guix is just an example there are other distros with some subsets packaged.
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