[Nix-dev] Reconsidering dash in package names

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 10/11/2014 03:16 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> If you do { inherit gcc; }, then $gcc just points to gcc's out path at
> build time.

Yes, I know, but I did not find that much useful yet. As you point out, 
packages are typically put into *buildInputs or used on nix-level (in 
strings). The probability of needing that feature with a dashed name 
seems low to me. Of course, we could also make stdenv convert dashes to 
underscores when defining the variable names...

Vladimir


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