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Every package is already installed

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The article introduces omnibin, a FUSE-based filesystem that exposes every binary from nixpkgs on demand, effectively making all packages available without installation. It explains the architecture (Nix, Hydra, cache, on-demand fetch, and a SQLite index), demonstrates Docker usage, and discusses tradeoffs like startup latency.

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