[Nix-dev] What is the end game?

[Colin Putney]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
>  > What if binutils had a release.nix in its repo? How about gcc or
>  > clang? What would the expressions look like in nixpkgs?
>
> the expressions in Nixpkgs would look exactly like they do today, i.e.
> they download a release tarball and build it. The binutils release.nix
> file would then customize those expressions with overrideDerivation or
> some other appropriate mechanism to build developer versions instead,
> i.e. by switching the 'src' location to a Git repository etc.
>

That seems backwards. The upstream project would then depend on nixpkgs.

-Colin
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