[Nix-dev] attribute names in nodePackages

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Fri May 31 00:21:01 CEST 2013


Hi,

On 30/05/13 11:47, Peter Simons wrote:

> the node packages set defines attributes that include many fancy
> characters, including white space:
> 
>     $ nix-env -qaP \* | egrep node.*event
>     nodePackages.events.node->= 0.4.0           events.node-0.4.9

That's pretty bad, in particular because you can't build/install such a package
using the -A flag to nix-build/nix-env.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/


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