[Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?

[Daniel Peebles]

I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. If not, it seems like the majority of packages could work that way, along with room to override where necessary.



> On May 7, 2015, at 08:10, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search doesn't index it.
> 
> Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per package section?
> 
> So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions would be split across multiple files.
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