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

[Jonathan Glines]

2016/01/09 午前10:36 "Profpatsch" <mail at profpatsch.de>:
>
> On 16-01-08 08:53am, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> >  and that
> > all-packages.nix should be abolished (use builtins.readDir by default
and a
> > manual overrides file where necessary)
>
> Strong -1 on this one.
>
> #1: Explicit is better than implicit
>
> Things will get very ugly.

On the other hand, don't repeat yourself is an important principle; the
current all-packages.nix is already pretty ugly. Any build problems would
be handled by a (much shorter) override or blacklist.

Anyway, devil's advocate +1 on this. I like it, but it's all bikeshed
unless someone makes a proof of concept.
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