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title: First pull request submitted to nixpkgs
date: 2025-03-31
permalink: daily/2025/03/31/nixpkgs
tags:
  - software-development
  - nix
  - linux
  - nixos
  - open-source
cta: ~
snippet: |
  I submitted my first pull request to nixpkgs.
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I've been using the Nix package manager for some time.

The first commit of a flake.nix file to my [nixos-config repository][0] (formerly my dotfiles repository) was on the 26th of September 2022.

The following month, I started to experiment with NixOS - the operating system built on the Nix language and the package manager.

Rarely have I found a package missing within the 120,000+ available, but I have added some missing Vim plugins and some custom packages to my own configuration.

But I hadn't tried to contribute any package definitions back to nixpkgs until today.

I've submitted [my first pull request to nixpkgs][1] to add a small script that I've added to my own configuration.

It's always nerve-racking contributing to a new projects, but let's see how it goes.

I'm thinking of it as [a free code review][2].

If it goes well, I can see me contributing more packages in the future.

[0]: https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/nix-config
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/395028
[2]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/05/14/free-code-reviews