Packages
Software bundles built (and potentially distributed) using the Nix package manager
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Nix packages are self-contained bundles that are built using derivations and provide some kind of software or dependencies of software on your computer. A package can have dependencies on other packages, which are encoded in its closure. Each package lives at a unique path in the Nix store indexed by its name and its input hash.