Emily
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Long‐dead upstream (completely vanished, in fact), using a release from 2013, barely surviving on a huge pile of Debian patches and drive‐by fixes. Even the Debian patch set in our package here is out of date. The `meta.homepage` was updated to point to a GitHub repository with commits from as recently as 5½ years ago, but that appears to be a separate fork from another developer, and we never actually shipped it. The last time this package was substantially touched was by @vs49688, who heroically took the time to patch it to update it from FFmpeg 2(!) to FFmpeg 4 as part of a tree‐wide sweep almost three years ago. Now that I’m dealing with FFmpeg 4, it would need patching again, and I really don’t feel like it. I considered simply dropping the FFmpeg dependency by disabling compressed CDDA support, but it’s just not worth it to keep this package alive. The state of PlayStation emulation has improved dramatically from when this fork was current. DuckStation and Mednafen are both better options for the majority of people. The PCSX Reloaded code lives on as PCSX ReARMed, which we package as a libretro core, but not as a standalone emulator. I would encourage anyone who has reason to want a packaged PCSX fork to package the standalone version of PCSX ReARMed from <https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed>. You can tag me for review if you’d like.
Nixpkgs is a collection of over 100,000 software packages that can be installed with the Nix package manager. It also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution.
Manuals
- NixOS Manual - how to install, configure, and maintain a purely-functional Linux distribution
- Nixpkgs Manual - contributing to Nixpkgs and using programming-language-specific Nix expressions
- Nix Package Manager Manual - how to write Nix expressions (programs), and how to use Nix command line tools
Community
- Discourse Forum
- Matrix Chat
- NixOS Weekly
- Official wiki
- Community-maintained list of ways to get in touch (Discord, Telegram, IRC, etc.)
Other Project Repositories
The sources of all official Nix-related projects are in the NixOS organization on GitHub. Here are some of the main ones:
- Nix - the purely functional package manager
- NixOps - the tool to remotely deploy NixOS machines
- nixos-hardware - NixOS profiles to optimize settings for different hardware
- Nix RFCs - the formal process for making substantial changes to the community
- NixOS homepage - the NixOS.org website
- hydra - our continuous integration system
- NixOS Artwork - NixOS artwork
Continuous Integration and Distribution
Nixpkgs and NixOS are built and tested by our continuous integration system, Hydra.
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for the NixOS 24.05 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for the NixOS 24.05 release
Artifacts successfully built with Hydra are published to cache at https://cache.nixos.org/. When successful build and test criteria are met, the Nixpkgs expressions are distributed via Nix channels.
Contributing
Nixpkgs is among the most active projects on GitHub. While thousands of open issues and pull requests might seem a lot at first, it helps consider it in the context of the scope of the project. Nixpkgs describes how to build tens of thousands of pieces of software and implements a Linux distribution. The GitHub Insights page gives a sense of the project activity.
Community contributions are always welcome through GitHub Issues and Pull Requests.
For more information about contributing to the project, please visit the contributing page.
Donations
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License
Nixpkgs is licensed under the MIT License.
Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to the files in this repository (the Nix expressions, build scripts, NixOS modules, etc.). It also might not apply to patches included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works of the packages to which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all covered by the licenses of the respective packages.