[Nix-dev] store & passwords - once again

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Eelco Dolstra's message of Mon Aug 13 01:54:35 +0200 2012:
> Unfortunately no, because this patch would introduce an untracked side effect to
> evaluation, namely creating files in a non-store location.

enableParallelBuilding = true is also impure. Do you want to remove that
feature again?

Or can we apply the same solution to this problem: Create a new nix
option so that people can opt in ?

I totally agree that Nix should as close to perfect as possible.
Anyway putting passwords in the store as recommended by the mediawiki
case in nixos is no option either.

Looks like I'm the only one wanting this for now - so I'll shut up.

I'm not going to force anything. You all will find a topic branch
experimental/nix here: https://github.com/MarcWeber/nixpkgs including
that and the debug coercion failure patch.

Marc Weber