[Nix-dev] Re: another style proposal

[Tony White]

On 3 April 2010 10:37, Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud+nix at ya.ru> wrote:
> Lluís Batlle wrote:
>
>> I prefer having an idea of the dependencies of a package in the
>> all-packages.nix file.
> It is just "an idea", not "knowledge". Even the arguments in default.nix is
> an "idea" (kdegraphics didn't use its djvulibre argument a few days ago). If
> you need all packages that depend on a specific one, use grep -r (I use git
> grep). If you want to *know* the dependencies of a specific package, look at
> buildInputs in its default.nix.
>
> Currently, we have three nearly equivalent lists:
> * arguments in all-packages.nix
> * arguments in default.nix
> * buildInputs ++ propagatedBuildInputs
>
> My style has the following advantages:
> * only two lists are needed;
> * one can write all needed overrides in "let" part of default.nix, so
> default.nix contains really all information about a package.
>
> P.S.: Please, use "list reply", not "reply to all".
>
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Hi Yury,
Confusing. No thanks. Current style is more sensible.
I object.

Thanks,
Tony