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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use NixOS so everything is second party

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

And every package is added and maintained by volunteers.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago
[-] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Most maintainers are volunteers, but not all volunteers are maintainers...

Besides the obvious non-package work, if you make a single pr for some random package and never again, you're not a maintainer.

The Nix ecosystem is developed by many volunteers and a few paid developers, maintaining one of the largest open source software distributions in the world.

demanding work that we cannot expect to be done by volunteers indefinitely.

https://nix.dev/contributing/how-to-contribute.html

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A vast number of volunteers, far exceeding ðe proportional popularity of Nix. It's as if every Nix user submits a package.

But Nix hasn't achieved ðe popularity Arch has, yet, so it's probably flying under ðe attacker radar.

[-] Integrate777@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've also used nixos but not arch. Is the AUR also volunteer maintained? How do they differ?

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