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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/zimbatm on 2023-10-27 14:51:25.

Hi community,

Ever hit a roadblock due to a missing Nix package?

To address that, today we are launching:

The goal is to provide a service to package anything without a lot of back and forth.

Right now, this is just a form that gets piped to our team. It’s very much a beta test, we are just testing this to see if it’s helpful to anyone.

Why do we do this?

My hypothesis is that this will make it easier for companies to adopt Nix. Both in terms of the initial adoption journey, and also to de-risk longer term adoption. Plus it’s fun to try new things.

There are two main buckets where packaging is difficult:

• Newcomers that don’t know how to read and write packages yet.
• Some packages are just super hardcore to untangle.

So, hopefully, providing this service will help.

Let me know what you think.