[Nix-dev] Two declarative ways to install a package?

Moritz Ulrich moritz at tarn-vedra.de
Fri Aug 12 15:44:00 CEST 2016


If the service doesn't provide any necessary command line tools that
would justify putting it into the global environment, I would say it's a
bug, yes.


Anders Lundstedt <anders at anderslundstedt.se> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Kevin Cox <kevincox at kevincox.ca> wrote:
>> It's also important to not that services generally (never?) actually
>> "install" the package.
>
> I did a quick check among my enabled services. Two services that add
> their packages to environment.systemPackages are the transmission and
> shairport-sync services. The shairport-sync.nix service file provides
> no motivation for this. Should this be considered a bug?
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