[Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the NixCommunity

[Michael Raskin]

>Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Thu Jun 28 00:38:16 +0200 2012:
>> Ok. Why was builderDefs rejected? What problems do you see with it, and what do others see?
>What does reject mean? I'd say it was not adopted (by me yet) because
>the existing monolitic setup.sh works good enough - I have my templates
>and its fastest for me. That's why I didn't spend more time on it.
>
>And if there was a change it would be ok to have different scripts until
>there is a big "let's recompile all" change - then everything could be
>updated to use the latest version of setup.sh
>
>Problems? You can't say "this phase must be run before configure", can
>you? Not sure how often this case happens.

You can, in two ways. 

1) You can put it before doConfigure in the list of phases

2) You can locally override doConfigure dependencies by adding a phase
without changing the text of doConfigure.