[Nix-dev] Why is unpackPhase special?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Marc Weber wrote:
> unpackPhase is special because you can't omit it.

The only reason it's special is because of the "cd", so if you put the "cd" in
unpackPhase then indeed this is no longer necessary :-)

There are a handful of packages in Nixpkgs which override unpackPhase and
sourceRoot (lsof at least), so those would have to be updated.

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