[Nix-dev] Some NixOS beginner questions...

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 30/03/14 23:35, Kirill Elagin wrote:

>     (4) How do I fix something if it is broken? Note I don't want to upgrade my
>     whole NixOS configuration to the unstable branch (as all the documentation
>     suggests), just make one or two fixes in certain packages (e.g. the nedit
>     package is currently broken, when starting the binary it crashes with some
>     X11 bad opcode error). I expected the nixpkgs repository to have a 'stable'
>     branch so I could check that out and work from there but such a branch seems
>     not to exist. How else can I replace/fix/change the nix expression for a
>     single package, leaving the rest of the system as is?
> 
> Actually, right now, using stable instead of unstable doesn't make any sense.

That's nonsense. I use the stable branch on all my systems. The average user
shouldn't run the unstable branch unless they have a particular reason to do so.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/