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I've had a few different ideas kicking around that boil down to finding one or more places/formats for documenting parts of the known nixiverse (at least nix + nixpkgs + ecosystem/toolchain projects).

(each of these would need software and interested parties/personalities to drive them...)

A massive living differential-diagnosis-style flowchart of the ecosystem

• Basically, everything official is fair game: concepts, official commands, config, modules, packages, error messages, best practices, and many third-party projects/resources (but I guess curation should be empowered to filter out self-promo/obsolete stuff).
• Most importantly, the thing that drives linking those resources into the flowchart should be linking them to plausible questions/decisions.
• Very specific details should probably be version-tagged?
• When people ask novel questions, those questions/answers should go into the map.
• Longer-term aspirations are things like:

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#!/nix/store/z6rd8wq02azalrlm2m5k08iy53klg624-bash-5.1-p12/bin/bash

# Usage: pdf2{odt,ods} [ options ] input.{jpg,pdf,png} ... output.{odt,ods}
#
# This script converts one or more PDF, JPG, or PNG files to an ODT or ODS
# file. The contents of any PDF file(s) is first converted to a set of image
# files. These files are then inserted as background images in the ODT or
# ODS file.
#
# Copyright (c) 2011 Markus Gutschke. All rights reserved.

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#!/nix/store/z6rd8wq02azalrlm2m5k08iy53klg624-bash-5.1-p12/bin/sh
# (c) Christoph Sieghart <sigi@0x2a.at> 2007 - 2011

VERSION=0.9.2

# Flags for commandline options
S_FLAG=0
C_FLAG=0

trap 'if [ $S_FLAG -eq 1 ]; then clean_temp_dir; clean_cursor; fi' 0 1 2

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dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 /nix/store/p0876isrv4gi1pbfkc6bms737grzwjlj-python3.8-j2cli-0.3.10
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 ├── bin
.r-xr-xr-x  964 abathur 31 Dec  1969 │  ├── .j2-wrapped
.r-xr-xr-x  371 abathur 31 Dec  1969 │  └── j2
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 ├── lib
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 │  └── python3.8
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 │     └── site-packages
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 │        ├── j2cli
.r--r--r--  261 abathur 31 Dec  1969 │        │  ├── __init__.py
dr-xr-xr-x    - abathur 31 Dec  1969 │        │  ├── __pycache__

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--- /nix/store/1nqnzfqzxsxrwafksffj78w48jc1iah8-shunit2-2.1.8/bin/shunit2	1969-12-31 18:00:01.000000000 -0600
+++ /nix/store/zh0ac2n6wyff2kpxc32wai8szhj4mk8z-resholved-shunit2-2.1.8/bin/shunit2	1969-12-31 18:00:01.000000000 -0600
@@ -29,15 +29,15 @@
 
 # Logging functions.
 _shunit_warn() {
-  ${__SHUNIT_CMD_ECHO_ESC} \
+  echo -e \
       "${__shunit_ansi_yellow}shunit2:WARN${__shunit_ansi_none} $*" >&2
 }