[Nix-dev] default options not working

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Sun Dec 4 15:26:40 CET 2011


ah,
I hate magic :)

should have thought of that.
Thanks

2011/12/4 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:22:06PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>> installing with "nix-env -iA nixpkgs_sys.mypkgs" worked fine.
>> Problem is: it should fail!
>> The samba package requires a "kerberos" attribute when useKerberos is true.
>> It asserts on this.
>> Why doesn't this work?
>
> callPackage is a clever thing, that fills the required attributes of the
> function parameter. It fills the kerberos too.
>


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