[Nix-dev] Re: mostly minimal Nixos built using gold ld where possible

[Rohan Hart]

Hi Ludo'

On 30 March 2010 01:12, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> Then packages referring to ‘binutils’ don’t have to be changed: they
> will refer to the user-selected variant of Binutils.  Users would only
> have to set ‘binutils.gold = true’ in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix (whether on
> NixOS or not.)
>
> What do you think?

I think that having one way to choose is just great.  I assume there's
some way to provide Hydra with different config.nix files so that both
binutilsLd and binutilsGold based derivations can be built?

I'll make these changes in a few weeks.

thanks for all your help
Rohan