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In short: Getting listed on Nixpkgs is free. Plan for about 45 minutes — there is material to prepare and a review to wait on.
What they ask for: Package your real CLI or desktop utility, set accurate homepage metadata, test it, and submit the Nixpkgs pull request.
Package your real CLI or desktop utility, set accurate homepage metadata, test it, and submit the Nixpkgs pull request.
Package must build reproducibly, meet Nixpkgs standards and pass review; the homepage shown on search.nixos.org must be canonical.
Open the submission page on nixos.org and complete its form — that is the "Open submit page" link at the top of this page.
Package must build reproducibly, meet Nixpkgs standards and pass review; the homepage shown on search.nixos.org must be canonical.
Priority sets the band — this one is medium. Cost (free) and effort (moderate) move it within that band, which puts it in the useful tier. The score orders a submission queue. It is not a measure of the site’s domain authority, traffic or quality.