Suggestion : creation of a script for development of new derivations

Hello, I was brainstorming in my room and I arrived at this conclusion:

Should be a good a idea to create a script who searchs in GitHub - NixOS/nixpkgs: Nix Packages collection & NixOS (locally I suppose) for a flake, with similar requirements:

For example i want to create a nix pkg who has the following requirements:

python 3
something strange
.net
etc

And it searchs in GitHub - NixOS/nixpkgs: Nix Packages collection & NixOS automatically which of the existing flakes has the packages as a starting point ( only need to change build commands etc…)

I think it could be good for newbies.

But I don’t know if I’ll be able to code it (i’ll try in a couple of weeks).

If someone think its a good idea … and have better skills… :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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nix-init kind of fits the bill. Of course, it can be improved.

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