[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] git:// repositories in nixpkgs

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 27/03/15 17:40, Serge Kosyrev wrote:

> What is the stance on git:// repositories in nixpkgs?
> 
> They are generally unavailable from behind corporate firewalls.
> 
> One package employing this is grub, as of current master.

It's generally better to avoid fetchgit since 1) unlike fetchurl, fetchgit calls
are not mirrored to tarballs.nixos.org; 2) fetchgit has no concept of mirrors;
3) it adds a dependency on Git.

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