[Nix-dev] Hydra no longer sets 'system'?

[Shea Levy]

On 09/18/2013 11:37 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18/09/13 14:10, Peter Simons wrote:
>
>>   > Maybe you installed the 32-bit version by accident?
>>
>> interesting, that is what seems to have happened. How is this possible?
>>
>> I subscribed to <http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/hydra/trunk/channel/latest>
>> and ran "nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/hydra/profile -i hydra".
>>
>> Now, the channel contains binaries for both 32 and 64 bit, but why would
>> nix-env pick the 32 bit version even though it's running on a 64 bit system?
> Because by default, nix-env doesn't filter packages by system type.  Try adding
> "--system-filter x86_64-linux".
>
Is there any reason not to have that filter be the default? Seems the 
least surprising behavior.