Motivation for this change

Adds boxes package.

Things done

• Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • macOS
  • other Linux distributions
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
• Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Comments

This is my first derivation, hope everything is fine. I have some doubts about the issue with the system wide config file used in boxes. The file is defined in the Makefile and defaults to /usr/share/boxes. In the derivation I'm changing it for $out/boxes-config. Individual users can define its own config file but, anyway, I'm not sure if there is a better way to go. Also, it would be nice to set the new config file path in a mkDerivation attribute, so that it can be overriden easily if needed. However, if I'm not wrong, I have no way to access $out from there, so it's not possible.