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Econometrics and Free Software · Feb 17, 2025

Why we forked nixpkgs

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Here’s why nixpkgs is a GitHub repository that contains tens of thousands of Nix expressions used by the Nix package manager to install software. By default, the nix package manager will pull expressions from NixOS/nixpkgs , but when using {rix} our fork rstats-on-nix/nixpkgs is used instead. Because forks can sometimes be a bit controversial, we decided a blog post was in order. First of all,…

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