[Nix-dev] Bundling nix-expressions with source code

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 28/01/13 14:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> In principle there could be just one expression in Nixpkgs, and the
> package’s release.nix would just use ‘overrideDerivation’ to change the
> ‘src’ attribute of that expression to point to the result of the
> ‘tarball’ job.

That would kind of work, but it's nicer to keep the expression in the same
repository as the source of the package.  That way they're always consistent.

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