[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 11/08/2011 01:05 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:

> The goal of this was to simplify the task for new comers, and avoid
> them the pain of selecting what they need.  

I agree with that goal, but it's completely wrong for nixos-hardware-scan to do
that.  The only thing that that script should do is generate a module that
enables support for the user's hardware, can be included from configuration.nix,
and can be re-generated if desired after a hardware change.  It shouldn't enable
any packages other than required to use the detected hardware (e.g. firmware
packages).  It's very counter-intuitive for nixos-hardware-scan to install (say)
Subversion or KDE, depending on what installation CD I happened to use.

What you want is a installation tool that generates an initial
configuration.nix.  But that's a separate issue.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/