[Nix-dev] "Package archeology" in nixpkgs

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:31:42 -0400
Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had a sudden urge to do some Haskell archeology and that led me
> to a question about how we feel "philosophically" about keeping
> abandoned projects and old versions of live projects in nixpkgs.

I think it's a very good idea, but ...
 

> How do people feel about this? Is it something I should maintain
> independently of nixpkgs or does it belong in the main repo?

... please keep it out of the main Nixpkgs, at least for now.  Reason
is that currently Nix performance drops linearly with the number of
packages.  Until we have a caching solution of some sort, I'd prefer to
keep Nixpkgs slim.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx at gmx.de>