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@ -195,6 +195,21 @@ The most immediate drawbacks are:
easier to create such categories using Nix language when compared to other easier to create such categories using Nix language when compared to other
software collections. software collections.
3. Superfluous
It can be argued that there are other ways to discover similar or related
package sets, like Repology.
However, this argument is a bit circular, because e.g. the classification
shown by Repology effectively replicates the classification done by the many
software collections in its catalog. Therefore, relying in Repology merely
transfers the question to external sources.
Further it becomes more pronounced when we take into account the fact Nixpkgs
is top 1 of most Repology statistics. The expected outcome, therefore, should
be precisely the opposite: Nixpkgs being _the_ source of structured metainfo
for other software collections.
# Alternatives # Alternatives
[alternatives]: #alternatives [alternatives]: #alternatives