Bug 451398

Summary:	Please add a nix backend to support the nix package manager
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	m.pedramfar
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description m.pedramfar 2022-03-11 14:57:24 UTC

The Nix package manager is brilliant, it works on all (most?) linux distributions and macOS and it even has more packages than AUR (see https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total). It would be great if there was a nix backend for discover.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-03-25 03:39:37 UTC

This would be something to implement in PackageKit, not Discover directly. PackageKit is the layer in the stack where support for different packaging systems gets implemented. See the current set of supported backends here: https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/tree/main/backends