[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

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> +  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?

In some exotic cases I would disagree, but here fetchsvn would be better
in my opinion.
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