[Nix-dev] Updating emacs-snapshot package

[Ludovic Courtès]

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> skribis:

> On 1/18/12 3:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Phil Hagelberg<technomancy at gmail.com>  skribis:
>>
>>> Is it just discouraged to package prerelease versions of software in
>>> general? If it's merely a question of stability then it shouldn't be a
>>> problem; the Emacs 24 pretest is very stable.
>> For GNU packages, I find it better to simply use whatever’s available
>> from<http://hydra.nixos.org/project/gnu>.
>
> How do I add such packages to my configuration.nix?

Unfortunately you don’t.  All you can do in practice is use the binaries
as I explained for Emacs.  (This can be automated, though.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.