[Nix-dev] A standard function to handle deps

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Saturday 10 July 2010 16:53:36 Marc Weber wrote:
> > I can't come up with such a case. Examples?
> 
> Yury G Kudryashov had another idea which tries to protect against
> failures: sending output of configure script:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/4409

I don't think it's related in any way though.

> > It is a reasonable safety check. The purpose is to fail due to assert if
> > you have missing required dependencies, instead of having ./configure
> > fail.
> 
> I personally don't care enough. I wasn't hit by that problem yet
> although I've been using NixOS as main system for quite a while now.
> It could make sense though. I feel depressed about giving a final
> statement on this list nowadays. So try to get feedback from other
> community members - or send patches and hope that someone has time
> to comment them.

I don't really see a problem with this. You offered constructive criticism and 
suggestions. Others don't see this change affecting them in a bad way and seem 
to be ok with whatever is done...

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Evgeny