diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/pixie/dust.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/pixie/dust.nix
index cc4f8f619e3..87743023910 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/pixie/dust.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/pixie/dust.nix
@@ -25,4 +25,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cp -a src/ run.pxi $out/share/dust
     mv dust $out/bin/dust
   '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Provides tooling around pixie, e.g. a nicer repl, running tests and fetching dependencies";
+    homepage = src.meta.homepage;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl3;
+  };
 }