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dantefromhell authored and blaggacao committed Oct 26, 2023
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In general, Standard wouldn't treat any intput as special.
However, no project that requires source distributions of one of the 80k+ packages available in `nixpkgs` can practically do without it.

Now, `nixpkgs` has this wired and counter-intuitive mouthful of `legacyPackages`, which was originally intended to ring an alarm bell and, for the non-nix-historians, still does.
Now, `nixpkgs` has this weird and counter-intuitive mouthful of `legacyPackages`, which was originally intended to ring an alarm bell and, for the non-nix-historians, still does.

Also, not very many other package collections adopt this idiom which makes it pretty much a singularity of the Nix package collection (`nixpkgs`).

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