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  • To answer your question: no guideline (as is typical with nix).

    I always check https://search.nixos.org/options first. There’s a chance it’s a package which requires setup or even a service that has extra config. If it’s not there, then https://search.nixos.org/packages is next.

    When multiple come up, it depends which prefix or suffix they have. Prefixes like pythonPackages. either mean the package is written in a specific programming language with its own packaging intricacies and its easier to keep them under that prefix, other prefixes like neovimPackages. mean it’s a package for a program and something like a plugin or so. Probably more prefixes exist.

    There are some agreed upon but badly documented suffixes (the usual nix style). But if it’s a version suffix, then it’s up to you to decide which one to use. In a comment you mentioned julia, well that’s a programming language so you have to choose the version you want. Sometimes the manual has information on how to use the programming language or one of the wikis.

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  • Absolute jokers. These are their estimates for changes:

    12–16 months and $27.5 – $66.9 million to offer “catalog access” (letting third-party app stores access Google Play apps)

    AuroraStore accesses the catalog by reverse engineering their API. They’d have to open up their APIs (which are already secured) by documenting them and removing mandatory authentication. That’s not going to take them a year.

    12 months and $1.7 – $2.4 million to offer “library porting” (letting users transfer ownership of their Android apps to a third-party app store in bulk)

    No friggin’ way. If they opened up their APIs and allowed third party app stores to use them, Google will have minimal involvement in the transfer.

    • 12–16 months and $32.1 – $67.7 million to distribute third-party app stores within Google Play A redacted amount of money to review apps and app updates carried by third-party stores.

    Are they seriously quoting that much time for allowing a third party app store to put its app on Google Play? Unless Epic is requesting Google to actually carry the third party app store catalog, this quote is completely bananas.

    The judge better get technical feedback from some Android experts unaffiliated with Google, their subsidiaries, or their competitors. Those quotes have minimal basis in reality and are just a stalling tactic - or Google engineers are extremely bad at their work. Do they type with a single finger while looking back and forth between the keyboard and screen?

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