What do you as a fail safe when there isnt a flake or nix package for what you need, and you don’t have the time or ability to create it?
Here’s my particular example. I need the beta version of OpenSCAD, which is only delivered as a flatpak in the beta flatpak channel, which I have tried but have been unsuccessful in doing. I havent even attempted building from source. Only the stable version is in nixpkgs. In this case, what would you do?
And in general, what do you do? Install things using a different package manager, like pip, npm, cargo, etc and manage at the user level? Do you run a VM? Docker? Let me know what your backup plan is on NixOS.
I haven’t really used nix, but I like what I read about it. I see a lot of critiques around it’s limited community, and therefore documentation/support
Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer to your question. But if there’s a relevant repo for the OS, you might be doing the community a favor by asking in the GitHub repo