[Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

Jookia 166291 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 02:39:37 CET 2016


On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 06:29:35PM -0700, Mathnerd314 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Jookia <166291 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:38:52AM +0000, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> > > 2016-01-08 0:34 GMT+00:00 Jonn Mostovoy <jm at memorici.de>:
> > > Still don't see the value in it. I would just prefix them with
> > > haskellPackages-<name>, pythonPackages-<name>.
> >
> > How would we do something like 'buildInputs = with pythonPackages;
> > [pycrypto]; '
> > with that kind of system? I imagine things would get very verbose very
> > quickly.
> >
> 
> We would still have all-packages.nix, so the attribute paths would not
> change.
> 
> -- Mathnerd314

Would this still work with conflicting namespaces, such as Python3Packages?


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