I’m new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn’t sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to “trust” when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs has about 5300 contributors and over 200K closed PR). This means it’s community driven.