[Nix-dev] Accessing files in derivations.

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 04/19/2016 10:03 PM, Layus wrote:
> But your description made me think of a viable workaround.
> We could ensure that every derivation has a fixed set of known outputs,
> like dev, lib, out and man.
> If there is no "lib" output, then the lib attribute could be an alias
> for out.

Yes, that has been suggested already and it's the current longer-term
plan, at least as I see it. It requires nontrivial code rewrite, due to
$outputLib and similar needing to be selected during evaluation and not
during build.

--Vladimir


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