[Nix-dev] Porting question

[Roelof Wobben]

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> From: moritz at tarn-vedra.de
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:59:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Porting question
> To: rwobben at hotmail.com
>
> The stuff between { ... }: are the arguments of the function you
> create. : in Nix creates a lambda. buildInputs is the named argument
> to the 'mkDerivation' fuction.
>
> (To be exact, the function you create takes one argument: An attrset,
> with keys named 'spellChecking', 'stdenv' and so on)
>

Still not clear to a non-coder. 

Roelof