--- title: The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix description: Nix and Guix share the same ATerm derivation format because Guix was forked from Nix. This shared foundation makes it possible to build a Guix derivation using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-guix-nix-abomination-leveraging-guix-derivations-in-nix-msosqe7hy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix | daily.dev og:description: Nix and Guix share the same ATerm derivation format because Guix was forked from Nix. This shared foundation makes it possible to build a Guix derivation using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-guix-nix-abomination-leveraging-guix-derivations-in-nix-msosqe7hy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MSoSqE7hy.png og:image:alt: The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix **[Farid Zakaria’s Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/fzakaria)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nix and Guix share the same ATerm derivation format because Guix was forked from Nix. This shared foundation makes it possible to build a Guix derivation using the Nix daemon by redirecting store paths and state directories. The author built a CLI tool called guix-transfer that performs bottom-up translation of entire Guix derivation graphs into Nix: rewriting /gnu/store paths to /nix/store, swapping builtin names (builtin:download → builtin:fetchurl), and registering the result with nix derivation add. The translated derivations build identically under Nix, produce the same content-addressed hashes, and can be used as normal Nix expressions or flake outputs — effectively making all of Guix's package graph available inside Nixpkgs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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