[Nix-dev] "Package archeology" in nixpkgs

[Wout Mertens]

Don't forget the nix-env -u case which updates based on name (in fact, that
kinda sucks for sub-attributes like python packages, there are lots of
attributes mapping to the same names).

Wout.


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
> wrote:

>
> On 01/09/2014 11:22, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>  > I suggest we distribute the database with the channel, similarly
>  > to the command-not-found database.
>
> Can't command-not-found suggest using nix-env -iA rather than nix-env
> -i? That would be one indirection less for that use case, and teach new
> users about nix-env -iA.
>
> --
> Florent
>
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