[Nix-dev] Treating emacs24-nox as an alternative to emacs

[Danie Roux]

Hi Marc,

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Alternative:
> targetpackage.deepOverride { emacs = emacsNox; };
> ?
> Could be slower and less convenient.

That works as well - the dependencies does not include any X libs. It
still forces a rebuild of emacs, which I would love to avoid.

If this could just fetch from the channel, without a rebuild I will be
very happy:

nix-env -i emacs-24.3-nox mu

--
Danie Roux