[Nix-dev] Commit access
Michael Raskin
7c6f434c at mail.ru
Mon Feb 29 18:51:13 CET 2016
>But on the other hand, I like the ability to submit a pull-request that
>adds a package, a NixOS module and documentation while also bumping the
>version of some dependencies. It makes it clear that one bunch of
>changes are related.
>
>Having different repos brings the difficulty to make different
>pull-requests related to the same idea, and to convince different
>maintainers that the change is useful. At best it slows updates as the
>pull-request for the module will have to wait for the PR of the package
>to be merged. At worst, we could get inconsistent decisions about merging.
As far as I remember, related changes were the reason to move NixOS
inside the NixPkgs repository, by the way.
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