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TheAssassin / AppImageLauncher

Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
https://assassinate-you.net/tags/appimagelauncher/
MIT License
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Nix package #643

Open AidanNotFunny opened 6 months ago

AidanNotFunny commented 6 months ago

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Feature description

It would be nice to have a Nix package, as especially for NixOS it'd be nice since appimages suck, but this app makes them suck a lot less and currently it doesn't really work well or at all on NixOS.

Proposed solution

A Nix package for the app. Nix packages are not hard to create, there are over 100 thousand of them in the official repos, even for packages that are usually only in the AUR on distros like Arch.

Alternative solutions you considered

A Flatpak or other distro-agnostic version of the app? Or maybe a Nix Flake or community package or something?

Additional context

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TheAssassin commented 6 months ago

I don't have a lot of experience with nix and barely ever used nix's "workaround" tool appimage-run. I certainly won't be providing packages upstream. But please don't hesitate to set up a downstream package.