[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 18993 - rob - nixos/trunk/modules/services/databases

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Nicolas Pierron wrote:

>> Rob Vermaas wrote:
>>
>>>  * allow configuration of mysql version
>> This creates an option named "services.mysql.mysql", which isn't very descriptive...
>>
> 
> may be it should be named pkg instead of mysql, but then I wonder what
> use is the nixpkgs overwrite?

Using packageOverrides would override mysql everywhere, which may not be want
you want.  For instance, I think KDE depends on mysql (for the embedded library
or something).  You may not want to rebuild all of KDE just because you want to
run the mysql service with another version of mysql.

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