[Nix-dev] Vim packages

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi Nixers,

"replica" from IRC have reported an issue about vim updates.  Many
derivation of vim exists with many sets of options.  All the vim
derivation are named like:

vim-${version}${configs}

Unfortunately this naming let Nix define that
"vim-7.2-huge-X11-python-tcl" is a newer version than "vim-7.2".

My questions are:
1/ Why they are so many "vim*" in all-packages.nix? Is that used to
make all configuration sets compiled on the buildfarm? Could we
compile the same package with different configurations on the
buildfarm?

2/ Why configuration options are part of the name?  This force you to
"manually" say "nix-env -e vim-7.2-huge-X11-tcl; nix-env -i
vim-7.2-huge-X11-python" to change the configuration. Isn't the
~/.nixpkgs/config.nix file made for that?

3/ Why vim?

-- 
Nicolas Pierron
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron
- If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once.