[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 22529 - raskin - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: development/interpreters/perl-5.10 development/interpreters/python/2.6 development/libraries/avahi development/libraries/cairo development/libraries/consolekit development/libraries/enchant development/libraries/freetype development/libraries/libjpeg development/libraries/libxml2 development/libraries/openssl development/libraries/zlib development/tools/misc/gnum4 lib os-specific/linux/hal servers/pulseaudio tools/networking/curl top-level

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 07/08/2010 03:25 PM, Michael Raskin wrote:

> -{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
> +{ stdenv, fetchurl
> +  , ...}:

Urgh, please don't do this.  (I think this has come up before.)  It's very ugly
to arbitrarily add "..." to some packages just because they happen to be
involved in a "deepOverride".  It weakens the precision of the function
interface definition.

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