[thegeekpirate]

> I think it's important to add that they both have the biggest number of packaged software and the most up-to-date software of all distributions even though they have far fewer maintainers than Debian.

Only because of https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/zp95a2/comment/j5ko9...

I also had plenty of issues with either packages not being available or not building, last I tried. At least with the AUR, it's generally only the latter you have to worry about ;)

[paulgdp]

Yeah, automation in Nixpkgs is crazy and goes far beyond any other distros (that I know of).

Why spend manual time when it can be automated?