I’m new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn’t sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to “trust” when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.

  • 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.

    • agile_squirrel@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t find anything concrete, but it seems that a package is automatically marked insecure if it has a dependency that has a known CVE. I wonder how that is done.