[Nix-dev] 6 month C4 adoption period

[obadz]

>
> IMO proposals that affect the entire community should at least bementioned
> on the ML


It was discussed on the ML last month:
http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-July/021170.html

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> IMO proposals that affect the entire community should at least be
> mentioned on the ML, as the nixpkgs tracker is way too noisy for many of
> us to follow all issues opened there.
>
> obadz <obadz-nix at obadz.com> writes:
>
> > For what it's worth there's an issue about adopting C4 (and other related
> > proposals). So far none have really achieved consensus but this is
> probably
> > where the conversation (if we can call it that) should continue:
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/17407#issuecomment-236450392
> >
> > lowPrio's code is here
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/meta.nix#L45-L48
> > Various packages can have the same "name" field in the top-level. lowPrio
> > says, «if someone tries to install something with that name, and there
> are
> > others available, prefer one of the others»
> > Personally, I prefer to use nix-env -iA so that there is no ambiguity.
> > (attribute set keys are guaranteed unique or you'll get an eval error).
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:11 AM, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I just want this issue resolved.
> >>
> >> Every time I update / upgrade I recompile rustBeta then rustUnstable
> >> and it results in 1/2 day lost. This has happened frequently, recently
> >> as rustUnstable and rustBeta have been broken for a long time.
> >> (ie days have been lost finding working revs then compiling rust)
> >>
> >> If the lowprio removal doesn't solve this then how can I get it such
> >> that when I issue a `nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch` and my
> >> configuration.nix contains `rustUnstable.rustc`  downloads these
> >> binaries http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-16.03/nixpkgs.
> >> rustUnstable.rustc.x86_64-linux.
> >>
> >> What exactly does lowprio do?
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