[Nix-dev] Publish All of Hackage

[Oliver Charles]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:

> The downside of this approach is that generating the entire Haskell
>> package set is actually kind of expensive, and we probably wouldn't want
>> to impose those costs onto random users who just wants to have XMonad
>> for their window manager
>>
>
> Couldn't the derivation we're importing from be cached like any other
> "binary" cache value? I've never checked, but intuitively it seems like it
> would make sense.
>

Yes, this is what I was getting at in my original post:

when I as a user choose to evaluate the set of Haskell packages, I will be
> forced to generate all the Nix expressions - or, this being Nix, ask a
> binary substitution server for that.
>
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