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Opam's Nix system dependency mechanism

UA2.118 (Henriot) | Day 1 | 16:30 - 16:35 | Speakers: Ryan Gibb

Opam's Nix system dependency mechanism
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Abstract

The OCaml language package manager, Opam, has support for interfacing with system package mangers to provide dependencies external to the language. Supporting Nix required re-thinking the abstractions used to interface with traditional package managers, but enables using Opam for development easy whilst benefitting from Nix's reproducible system dependencies. This provides one example of how Nix interfaces with other software development and deployment technologies.

Read more at https://ryan.freumh.org/opam-nix.html

Get in touch at https://ryan.freumh.org/about.html

See the slides at https://ryan.freumh.org/talks/slides/2026-fosdem-opam-nix.html

Speakers

Ryan Gibb

I’m a PhD student in the Systems Research Group and Energy and Environment Group at the Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. In my free time I write open-source software and use self-hosted networked services.

Get in touch at https://ryan.freumh.org/about.html

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