[Nix-dev] subversion vs. subversionClient vs. git vs. NixOS (was: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r29102 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools: . git)

[Peter Simons]

Hi Yury,

 > It seems that I made a mistake...

no, actually, your change is perfectly fine.


 > Could you please explain the difference between subversion and
 > subversionClient in more details?

'subversion' has the ability to host a local subversion repository, but
'subversionClient' does not -- it's a pure client, meant to access
repositories hosted elsewhere. As such, it's a good idea for 'git' to
depend on 'subversionClient'.


 > Do we need "subversion" (not svnClient) in the base system?

I wonder about that, too. The NixOS base system does not need to ability
to host a subversion repository, so I don't see why the client version
of subversion shouldn't be good enough.

Take care,
Peter