[Nix-dev] Re: Reorganization of the nixpkg file hierarchy

[John Altobelli]

I forgot to mention, a special thanks to Marc Weber for his help.  He
came up with a very nice vim script to adjust the all-packages.nix
file.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM, John Altobelli <acocaracha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For the past week I've been working on a branch of nixpkgs that moves
> the packages into an file hierarchy modeled after the Gentoo portage
> system (http://gentoo-portage.com/Browse).  I have since completed the
> reorganization and would like to get the opinions of the developers
> here about whether they like this new hierarchy and whether it would
> be worth moving into mainline.
>
> This system would use a single directory organizational structure with
> the project directory directly under that directory (ie
> media-sound/audacious).  The existing packages have been moved to
> where they would exist in the portage system.  I am not saying at all
> that they need to remain there, as directories can be combined and/or
> renamed.  However, at this time it was easier for me to stick to the
> portage tree for the most part in the initial reorganization.
>
> I feel this system is much easier to locate packages and more friendly
> to new developers.  Most of the changes are to nixpkgs, however there
> are a few adjustments that needed to be made to nixos.  I have tested
> both and in fact have them as my /etc/nixos/nixos and
> /etc/nixos/nixpkgs without any problems.
>
> Here are my git repos, they are both up to date (for anonymous svn
> checkout) at the time of this email:
> git://git.assembla.com/nixos.git
> git://git.assembla.com/nixpkgs.git
>
> Thanks and I look forward to feedback and discussion,
>
> John (acoc)
>