[Nix-dev] [nix language] strings that have paths/derivations embedded

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Tue Oct 09 12:09:33 +0200 2012:
> I found the scary-sounding function "unsafeDiscardStringContext",
> which seems to work around this problem.
> Can someone please shed some light on what's going on (or nix
> string/context handling in general) and if it that function is safe to
> use for this case.

Example:

yourderivation {
  name =

  scritp = ''
  ${unsafeDiscardStringContext otherDerivation}
  '';
}

AFAIK this should not build otherDerivation, but pass the store path of
otherDerivation.

Marc Weber