# nixpkgs-wayland

An automatically updated overlay of pre-built, often unreleased, packages for Wayland compositor tools such as sway and wlroots, for the NixOS unstable channel, with a binary cache so packages do not need to be rebuilt locally.

nixpkgs-wayland is an overlay of automated, pre-built packages for Wayland tools built around sway and wlroots, targeting the nixos-unstable channel. Packages are auto-updated from each project's upstream source control, so the overlay frequently carries unreleased versions ahead of what mainstream nixpkgs offers.

Continuous integration jobs advance nixpkgs and try to upgrade every package, verify that the overlay still builds against the latest nixos-unstable, and confirm the current locked state still builds; packages that build successfully are pushed to a Cachix binary cache so users do not need to compile them themselves. It can be used through Nix flakes, either running or building a specific package directly, or imported as an overlay onto an existing NixOS configuration.

It is written in the Nix language.

Website: https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-wayland