[Nix-dev] Haskell-env (via nix-shell) - am I doing this right?

[Peter Jones]

"Ricardo M. Correia" <rcorreia at wizy.org> writes:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
>
>> To start out, I'm using HaskellNG and a recent version of nixpkgs where
>> HaskellNG is the default.  Here are the components I use with some
>> examples:
>>
>>   1) I write a default.nix that describes my dependencies:
>>
>>         https://github.com/pjones/byline/blob/master/default.nix
>
>
> Thanks for the example!
>
> Out of curiosity, why is that "shellHook" stuff needed on every package?
>
> Couldn't "ghcWithPackages" export those variables instead (as a "setupHook
> ")?

I stole those lines from someone else and haven't taken the time to
verify that they are actually needed.  Maybe someone with more knowledge
than me can speak to this point.

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