TechLobstersabout 3 hours ago
Omnibin Puts All Nixpkgs Binaries on PATH
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Omnibin is a FUSE filesystem that exposes every binary Nixpkgs ever shipped on your PATH without installing anything. It indexes over 881,933 binaries from 2013 to 2026, fetching and unpacking NARs on demand from cache.nixos.org. The first access takes 2.7 seconds; subsequent runs are instant. The project is available at github.com/fzakaria/omnibin.
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