[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17077 - MarcWeber - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: applications/networking/browsers applications/networking/browsers/netsurf development/misc/bleeding-edge-repos misc top-level

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

> +  netsurf = args: with args; fetchurl { # Mon Sep  7 10:00:40 CEST 2009
> +    url = "http://mawercer.de/~nix/repos/netsurf-9549.tar.gz";
> +    sha256 = "4395ec1d4f4a305998daae3aff237398be3307b16285267a996b0a7f6a15758c";
> +  };

I know there are others like this one, but I don’t think the main
Nixpkgs repository should refer to data outside the upstream repository
(Netsurf in this case), or nixos.org, or {debian,gentoo,...}.org, as
it’s rather opaque (where does that tarball come from?), possibly
unreliable (what if the file is removed of the domain name disappears?).

What do you think?

Thanks,
Ludo’.