Documentation
Every binary nixpkgs ever shipped, on your PATH, fetched only when something reads it. These pages cover what it is, how to run it, and what it costs.
- Using it covers the three ways in: a shell on any Linux, a NixOS module, and a container image.
- Design explains how a filesystem can show all of nixpkgs without holding any of it, why the metadata half is already published, and what a NAR index would and would not buy.
- Building the index covers the crawl, the sharding, and how a data release is cut.
- Caveats is the honest list of what does not work.
The index itself is browsable at https://omnibin.dev/, and every store path it names is in nixpkgs-multiverse, which is where they all come from.