Nix Bundlers

Bundlers are a way to transform derivations. The most common and default usage is based on the original by matthewbauer. Each bundler is function over a value (usually a derivation) that produces another derivation.

```console
$ nix bundle --bundler github:NixOS/bundlers nixpkgs#hello

How to contribute

Main purpose of this repository is to collect most common bundlers to make common use-cases easy. For this purpose the collection of bundlers is limited to provided an opinionated and curated list.

TODO: bundlers should be also discoverable on search.nixos.org

Opening issues

• Make sure you have a GitHub account
• Make sure there is no open issue on the topic
• Submit a new issue

What is required to submit a bundler?

Note: This section is a WIP

Each bundler needs:

• name

  Folder with the same name should be created and this is a location of the bundler. An entry with name is requred in flake.nix.

• description

  A description that explains the content of the bundler in one sentence. An entry with description is requred in flake.nix.

• maintainers

  Each bundler needs one of more maintainers with the knowledge of specific area. Each bundler has an entry in .github/CODEOWNERS with maintainers next to them.

License

Note: contributing implies licensing those contributions under the terms of COPYING, which is the MIT license.