[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r25375 - in

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>> Added:
>>    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/tools/networking/knetworkmanager/
>>    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/tools/networking/knetworkmanager/live.nix
>
>I've disabled this in all-packages.nix because the fetchgitrevision call breaks
>"nix-env -q".  This is because "nix-env -q" won't perform derivations during
>evaluation.

Is it because name attribute cannot be evaluated, or would it fail the same way
for anything that affects the output path? Should there be a switch in Nix
to break such tricks even for non-readonly evaluation?

>Also, perhaps these packages should be kept in a separate tree of "bleeding
>edge" developer/maintainer-targeted Nix expressions, since Nixpkgs should have
>at least some minimum level of stability :-)

Well, stability is not the right word here, I am afraid.. "nixos-rebuild switch" failing
after a successful "nixos-rebuild build" because of a package would destroy our main
selling point