[Nix-dev] nixpkgs and external package databases

[Peter Simons]

Hi Florian,

 > We have hackage, pypi, marmalade, cpan, ctan and probably many more -
 > all databases of packages for some language or tool. How do we want
 > to handle them?

I would love to provide helpful insights into that subject, but
unfortunately I don't know much about the respective domains.

We have a decent solution for Hackage, which is described here:

  https://github.com/haskell4nix/cabal2nix/blob/master/README.md

I hope this helps,
Peter