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diff --git a/users/Profpatsch/ytextr/create-symlink-farm.nix b/users/Profpatsch/ytextr/create-symlink-farm.nix
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+{
+  # list of package attribute names to get at run time
+  packageNamesAtRuntimeJsonPath,
+}:
+let
+  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+  getPkg = pkgName: pkgs.${pkgName};
+
+  packageNamesAtRuntime = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile packageNamesAtRuntimeJsonPath);
+
+  runtime = map getPkg packageNamesAtRuntime;
+
+in
+  pkgs.symlinkJoin {
+    name = "symlink-farm";
+    paths = runtime;
+  }