nix-community/NUR

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1937 stars · 532 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The Nix User Repository (NUR) is a community-driven meta repository aggregating user-contributed Nix package expressions, installable via attributes or flakes. It lets the community share packages faster and more decentralized than Nixpkgs, with automated evaluation checks but no security review.

Use cases

• install community nix packages not in nixpkgs
• share my own nix packages with others
• add nur overlay to my nixos configuration
• use nur with flakes in flake.nix
• find and search nix packages from user repos
• pin a specific nur revision for reproducible builds

When to choose

• you use Nix or NixOS and need packages missing from nixpkgs
• you want to publish nix packages without going through nixpkgs review
• you want faster access to new community packages

When to avoid

• you need security-reviewed packages - NUR does not check repositories for malicious content
• you don't use the Nix package manager
• you require guaranteed package stability or official support

Facets

library · maturity active

package-manager developer-tools plugin-system developer-tools self-hosted cli cross-platform nix nixpkgs nur overlays nix-expressions community-packages flakes command-line automation linux macos

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