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Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks


Hi everyone, i made an experimental nix flake to automatically package all brew casks for nix. It probably won’t work with all casks but it has the benefit of being a fully nix expression compared to nix-darwin’s homebrew module where you just specify the name (and it uses homebrew to install it), feel free to try it out 🙂

Experimental nix expression to package all MacOS casks from homebrew automatically - BatteredBunny/brew-nix For the missing hash, I wonder if you want to maintain in your repository some file that would complete the already existing packages, if not, i wonder if we can add something to add attach a local json file with missing hash needed, or other. juliens: For the missing hash, I wonder if you want to maintain in your repository some file that would complete the already existing packages, if not, i wonder if we can add something to add attach a local json file with missing hash needed, or other.

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