Hoe do you self host a nix package repo & install nix packages from 3rd party repos? Is this even possible.

Other package managers allow you to install packages from 3rd party repos such as Flatpaks, apt, F-Droid, Scoop, Winget.

And is there any known 3rd party nix package repos?

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    4 months ago

    Nix doesn’t really have “repos” like other distros. There is nix source and there are binary caches.

    To use source, you import it. I think that is easiest with flakes, but there are multiple ways to do it.

    If you want to self host the binary cache, you’ll want to look at using a substituter. There are several ways to host a cache as well.