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Who makes Nix packages? (lemmy.ml)
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I'm new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn't sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to "trust" when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.

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[–] tom42 1 points 1 year ago

That's an easy question. In the main Github repo you can fin the insides which shows the contributers with the latest commits: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors

And in the cloned repo the command git shortlog -sne --all | wc -l lists a total number of 8636 contributers to Nix packages.