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 [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs) is a collection of over
-80,000 software packages that can be installed with the
+100,000 software packages that can be installed with the
 [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package manager. It also implements
 [NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/), a purely-functional Linux distribution.