[Nix-dev] Fwd: The nixpkgs.config vs overrides (was: Documenting nixpkgs.config options)

[Herwig Hochleitner]

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From: Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleitner at gmail.com>
Date: 2015-06-01 15:35 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: The nixpkgs.config vs overrides (was: Documenting
nixpkgs.config options)
To: Jan Malakhovski <oxij at oxij.org>


2015-05-28 14:30 GMT+02:00 Jan Malakhovski <oxij at oxij.org>:
>
> And so now I maintain my own set of patches I rebase on top of master
> once and then, that goes against the grain and simplifies all that
> `nixpkgs.config`-style configuration stuff fairly significantly by
> adding another version of callConfPackages (also removing a ton of
> copy-paste from `all-packages.nix` as a side effect)
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/compare/master...oxij:call-conf-package
>
> and weep every time someone rewrites and expression for a package
> dropping the support for `<feature>Support` options (e.g. most recently
> `qemu` =/).
>

Are you talking about
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/19c259161b987fcb5e1c3b7a87c746372ce017ee#commitcomment-11453831
per chance?
Apparently Eelco dislikes nulling out optional dependencies in the
parameter set aswell. Although, he wasn't clear on alternatives in that
comment.
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