Why we forked nixpkgs

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,…