[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixos] cba4d2: Setting the system utillinux to be utillinuxCurses...

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Mon Dec 17 13:28:06 CET 2012


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:26:27PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 16/12/12 16:04, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> >   Log Message:
> >   -----------
> >   Setting the system utillinux to be utillinuxCurses.
> > 
> > The live-dvd was set that way already.
> > I think some utillinux pieces may be nicer, or have more tools. I don't know
> > the details though.
> 
> If you don't know the details, then why do it? :-P
> 
> Because this does have the negative effect of causing two copies of util-linux
> in the system closure.

I thought that there was a reason for it to exist both in nixpkgs and the
live-dvd. No problem from my side if we take this back though.


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