[Nix-dev] Extra dependencies for Steam games?

[Kevin Cox]

On 09/12/16 10:02, Nikolay Amiantov wrote:
> I'm not sure if we want to add something like `extraDependencies`
> argument to Steam; it feels better to me to just add those libraries
> unconditionally so that games work out of the box (you don't expect
> Steam to have low storage requirements anyway).
>
> On the other hand, there are runtimes like Mono and Java which are
> needed rarely and are big. Maybe we want to remove them by default and
> introduce the argument after all...
I agree with your first point. Steam provides a guaranteed set of 
libraries that developers can expect to be there. I think the nixpkgs 
version should provide all of those libraries by default (although I am 
not against the possibility to remove some if you wish)