[Nix-dev] NIXPKGS environment variable in nixos-rebuild

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 12/07/2010 05:36 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:

> I was writing some documentation for the nixos-{build-vms,deploy-network}
> commands and I noticed that the 'nixos-rebuild' command uses the NIXPKGS
> environment variable for locating Nixpkgs. I think the NIXPKGS_ALL environment
> has the same purpose (which is already set by default on NixOS). Shouldn't this
> be changed, or is there maybe a different purpose of using a separate NIXPKGS
> variable?

I agree, we should have only one variable.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/