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the nixpkgs repo is pretty difficult to fork

For this reason, Tvix (a modular Nix implementation) cites compatibility with nixpkgs as one of their goals:

The package collection is an enormous effort with hundreds of thousands of commits, encoding expert knowledge about lots of different software and ways of building and managing it. It is a very valuable piece of software and we must be able to reuse it.

https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix