On-demand linked libraries for Nix

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This is a write up of some discussion ongoing with some folks on the #nix-community IRC chat primarily being driven by Mic92. Nixpkgs maintains the highest rating on Repology for having the most packages & which are up to date. Unfortunately even with the current ecosystem of packages, there will always be gaps, and for beginners in NixOS a common question is: “I’ve download a binary and would like to run it on NixOS” Take a look at this graph https://repology.org/repositories/graphs Can we do better & streamline running non-Nix software? 🤔 This was some of the questions posed by some…