[Nix-dev] Audacity, I know why it won't build, Need strategy recommendations please

[Michael Raskin]

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Tony White wrote:
> What I really need is a suggestion on how to download, use and then
> discard the sources for each dep like libmad that audacity seems to
> want the source code for. Obviously having an expression for source
> code which is just a build time dep wastes space in the nix store
> because it won't be used again unless audacity is recompiled.
> 
> Is there an elegant and simple way that anyone can suggest for me to try?

Thanks for looking into the problem. I guess ${libmad.src} should work,
at least it works for absolute majority of packages (mkDerivation leaves
the argument src in the output).
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