[Nix-dev] Re: haskell-packages: added cabal2nix

[Peter Simons]

Hi Marc,

 > [The] pool of "hackage packages" it knows about. The default is
 >
 >   - latest versions
 >   - some manually selected versions to keep some packages building
 >
 > That scales good enough to build everything from yi to darcs or gtk2hs.

do I understand it correctly that you are saying hack-nix can build
*all* of Hackage? I could pick the latest version of any random package,
and hack-nix would know how to build it and the build would succeed?

Take care,
Peter