[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r22680 - nixpkgs/branches/x-updates/pkgs/tools/misc/grub

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Eelco,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> writes:

> Author: eelco
> Date: Tue Jul 20 19:22:02 2010
> New Revision: 22680
> URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=22680&sc=1
>
> Log:
> * Disable GRUB 2's `make check' by default, because it requires QEMU.
>   It's not so desirable to have GRUB 2 depend on X11, Mesa, SDL,
>   PulseAudio, ... (I became very confused when changing Mesa triggered
>   a rebuild of GRUB.)

As usual, since it’s a build-time-only dependency, I don’t consider it a
problem, especially since nothing depends on GRUB.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Ludo’.