[Nix-dev] multiple-ouputs branch

[Vladimír Čunát]

Hi.

Currently noone worked on that branch, I believe, but Eelco (and also 
me) thinks that we should (attempt to) integrate it before 14.10.

On 06/09/2014 06:18 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> I think [1] is relevant. My personal take on this is that if we don't
> want to pull in Python with glib then the maintainer should offer a
> configurable flag in the glib package which when set, passes the
> appropriate flags to the build process. Think Gentoo USE flags.

No, it's about something else. Especially for development/library 
packages, there's lots of stuff that isn't needed at runtime (headers, 
generators, etc.). These are supposed to be split, mostly automatically, 
into a separate output. Other distros often have *-dev variants of 
packages for the same purpose.

Referred [1] is work on one particular package, but we want to (attempt 
to) do this for almost all packages by shared code, probably by stdenv 
modification.


Vlada


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