[Nix-dev] What is the end game?

[Joachim Schiele]

please see this discussions:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504
https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/197

i also would like the service in nixpkgs but eelco certainly knows what
he is doing! on the other hand installing hydra is a real pain and many
many will simply give up quite soonish.

On 25.08.2015 17:42, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Let's say for a moment that Nix has taken over the world, and every open
> source project now includes a default.nix or release.nix in its repo root.
> 
> What does nixpkgs look like in this world? Does it duplicate the
> individual package .nix files in their respective repositories? Does it
> only duplicate minimal information (dependencies and meta) from the
> remote repositories?
> 
> We're already running into (a small amount of) pain because Hydra
> already fits the description
> above: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504#issuecomment-95547176.
> Based on expectations set by most packages in nixpkgs/nixos, we expect
> to find services and packages in nixpkgs, and Hydra breaks that
> expectation. I'm not necessarily saying we should move its expressions
> into nixpkgs, but I am looking for someone to paint a picture of what
> Nix(OS) life will look like when we achieve world domination :)
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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