[Nix-dev] Re: My last commit

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Mon Aug 11 10:38:57 CEST 2008


Hello,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Hi Marc,
>
>  > [My last commit] adds gitGit with a glob patch so that you can view
>  > all commits in git modifying */udev/default.nix or such..
>
> this is not a major problem, but, personally, I'm not fond of including this
> kind of patch in the distribution. When a user installs Git through Nix, she
> expects Git to behave more or less like Git would behave when it's been
> installed manually.

+1.

The same holds for the modified GNU Make, IMO.

Thanks,
Ludovic.




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