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Nixpkgs replacements

Even though Nixpkgs is currently the standard package set for Nix and NixOS, it can be replaced by another with different conventions and/or functionality. An alternative package set may build upon certain aspects of Nixpkgs, but more often than not it serves a distinct purpose.

This is a list of Nixpkgs alternatives:

Nixcrpkgs Focused on cross-compiling
Triton - differences between Nixpkgs and Triton
NixWRT Build Router images with nix, based on nixpkgs

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 * [https://github.com/telent/nixwrt/ NixWRT] Build Router images with nix, based on nixpkgs
-== Overlays ==
-Since NixOS-17.03 Nixpkgs provides the [[Overlays|overlay]] feature which can be used to extend the Nixpkgs package set.
-This is an non-exhaustive list of overlays:
-* [https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla Rust-nightly overlay] - [http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#using-the-rust-nightlies-overlay details in Nixpkgs manual]
-* [https://github.com/peter-sa/nixos-rocm Overlay for Radeon Open-Compute packages]
-* [https://github.com/garbas/nixpkgs-python Overlay by Rok Garbas for a set of python packages built by pypi2nix]
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