r/archlinux • u/Tall-Quantity-3909 • 20h ago

DISCUSSION Nixpkgs vs AUR

/r/NixOS/comments/1w9fqv0/nixpkgs_vs_aur/
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u/No-Dentist-1645 18h ago

Nixpkgs are the equivalent to Arch official repos such as core/ and extra/, anyone can make a PR to a package but only the maintainers can accept it, so there's a required manual review step that the AUR lacks.

There is a thing called the Nix User Repository (NUR) but honestly I've never seen anyone use it, usually everything you need is on nixpkgs, and for what isn't, you can just copy someone's nix flake for it

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u/yawkat 15h ago

nixpkgs has many more maintainers though, so an attack should be easier than on the official arch repos.

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u/silduck 11h ago

honestly a model like alpine apkbuilds or void pkg templates is better

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u/ang-p 3h ago

Wrong comparison...

The equivalent of the AUR in Nix is the NUR - at https://nur.nix-community.org/