Packaging Pre-built Binaries with Nix Flake
Here’s the scenario: You have a nix environment all set up with all the dependencies you need for working on your next awesome project. All but one. nixpkgs doesn’t have the version you want. Fortunately, there’s a static binary file on their GitHub page. So should you just manually download it every time you set your project up, or should you write a Nix package that builds it from source?...