I read this post by Anders J Papitto: http://anderspapitto.com/posts/2015-02-28-deb-installation-nixos.html
and got excited. You can actually install Debian packages? Even complex ones like Steam? I started refactoring his example and surprisingly it wasn't hard to put in an automation-friendly format. So my question is why has no one done this before? Is it considered a bad idea? Are there legal issues? Have I just not heard of it? And if not, any interest in extending it to cover more packages and/or have a proper deb2nix script? Here's the code, which can be unzipped and run with `nix-build`: https://gist.github.com/jefdaj/9c88c5f9712f33faf7b1 Jeff _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev