Install Veshell on NixOS

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Hey,

I recently got interested in Veshell’s approach as a “not-desktop” environment, and I want to install it on NixOS — maybe even create a Nixpkgs package for it. However, I have no experience building my own package and don’t even know if this kind of project is feasible.

I’m a bioinformatician, so I have coding experience, but I’m not very familiar with the Nix language. Do any of you have insights on how to approach this, or whether it’s even a good idea?

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Do they have some installation instructions other than the pacman package? veshell/PKGBUILD at 923fc852b0ca026598dab66ee7e5f9d2ffa303e8 · free-explorers/veshell · GitHub :sweat_smile:

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The pacman PKGBUILD looks broken in any case, it only runs make and there’s no Makefile in the repo.

nix-init (3rd-party tool) should get you a basic package expression, then you can tweak it. I don’t know how the rust code interfaces with dart here, it could get more complex than that.