Nix is a functional package manager for Linux and other Unix systems, making the management of packages more reliable and easy to reproduce. With a traditional package manager, when updating a package, a new version is downloaded and used to overwrite its associated files. Changes can’t be undone. If for […]
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Nix package creation: install a not yet supported font
The Nix packages collection is large with over 60 000 packages. However, chances are that sometimes the package you need is not available. You must integrate it yourself. I needed for some fonts which were not already present inside nixpkgs. In Nix, a font is distributed as a package like […]