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		yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nix Team Creation Should work for portable apps, or anything else that's distributed as an archive that can be directly extracted and work (So AIUI a tiny fraction of the available software. Still, it's not nothing.)

pxc on Oct 5, 2022 [–]

You could probably wrap Scoop packages into a Wine environment with Nix fairly easily, since all the packages in their main repos are well-behaved, portable, and install non-interactively.

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