[Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?

[Wout Mertens]

the problem with readDir is slowness due to reading thousands of files...
nix codegen would fix that :)


On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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