[Nix-dev] Reorganization of the nixpkg file hierarchy

[Michael Raskin]

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Marc Weber wrote:
>> In my opinion there will not be any redundancy for you if you want to
>> ignore pkgtags/ directory alongside pkgs. Those who want to use it would
>> find some - probably redundant - symlinks that will help them to
>> understand what in nixpkgs structure corresponds to things they expect.
>>
> So we could use a text file and put in the path instead equally well.
> I got it now.

Well, symlinks have some benefits when you use cd.

> But then we can use tags and we'll get the same result.

A bit worse..

> Maybe we could just use
>
> meta = {
>   gentoo_location = " app-admin/http";
>   tags = [ "http" "daemons" ];
>   [..]
> }
>
> Then we could even automatically generate those symlinks or files or
> whatsoever ?

Well, it's not what I understood - you can only tag packages, while I
thought we would sometimes tag things like applications/networking/browsers


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