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This is a challenge for Nixpkgs, because Nix needs to adapt the conventions of these foreign systems to its own. | This is a challenge for Nixpkgs, because Nix needs to adapt the conventions of these foreign systems to its own. | ||
It's preferable for a particular foreign repository to be adapted in one way. | |||
There are also general best practices we'd like to promote in the development of these adapters. | |||
Ideally, a new contributor should be able to consult the Nixpkgs manual regarding their language, and be able to determine precisely what they need to do to add their package in a consistent way. | |||
<h2>Goals for Adapters</h2> | |||
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<dt>Reproducibility<\dt> | |||
<dd>This is the usual Nix requirement: a particular expression should produce the same output if it's re-run. At the bare minimum, two productions of an expression should be functionally indistinguishable, but this is a degraded case of operation.</dd> | |||
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