Luckily (at least for me) Nix makes building and packaging arbitrary software fun. There's something to hacking derivations together, reading documentation, see

Luckily (at least for me) Nix makes building and packaging arbitrary software fun. There's something to hacking derivations together, reading documentation, seeing it build and work. At this point, there isn't a C project I can't package in fewer than a handful of sittings. Even when patches are involved!