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Nix Flakes

Prerequisites

Have the nix CLI Nix installed
You do NOT require a NixOS system for this; any Linux distribution or macOS will do.

Demo

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";

  outputs =
    { nixpkgs }:
    {
      packages.x86_64-linux.cow = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.writeShellScriptBin "hello-cow" ''
        ${nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.cowsay}/bin/cowsay "Hello, Nixian!"
      '';
    };
}

nix run .#cow

Explanation

TODO ...