[Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?

[Eelco Dolstra]

On 07/05/15 14:29, Daniel Peebles wrote:

> I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate
> (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. 

I made an abortive attempt at reducing the size of all-packages.nix a while back:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ece61b7cc803d374e81b1094bd9c1f6d5a9ca5d0

It would allow getting rid of all packages that don't override any default
arguments (i.e. pass "{ }" to callPackage).

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