[Nix-dev] environment.allowedLicenses ?

Domen Kožar domen at dev.si
Sat Jan 24 20:16:53 CET 2015


Just anywhere in nixpkgs manual. There is no section that describes options
for nixpkgs.config yet.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> On 21-01-2015 20:56:44, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today I heard that in Gentoo one has the ability to specify licenses
> > which are okay for the system and licenses which are "blacklisted" and
> > packages with that licenses shouldn't be installed.
> >
> > Despite this is true for Gentoo or not, this would be a really cool
> > feature for NixOS and I think a lot of people (a lot of GNU people,
> > actually) would be attracted by this feature!
> >
> > Is this possible with Nix(OS)? If yes, would you guys like such a
> feature?
> > If yes,... maybe I can implement it (with enough guidance, though)...
>
> Turned out this is possible. I implemented it and submitted a PR,
> which just got merged[0].
>
> Where shall I document it? In the wiki? Where? In the repository?
> Point me to the (exact) location where to document this!
>
> [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5892#issuecomment-71332553
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
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