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

[zimbatm]

Okay, now we just need *someone* to implement a proof of concept :p

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 at 11:13 ikrek vagyunk <ikervagyok at gmail.com> wrote:

> dear fellow nixers,
>
> i  followed this discussion and would like to propose (the already
> proposed) way of sorting packages alphabetically and then add some
> meta-tags. every package should be in a directory, just like today, with
> default.nix and all other files needed for that exact package.
>
> pros:
> - would be mostly just automatically moving the current package set around
> and adding meta-tags derived from the current directory structure
> - all-packages.nix can invoke any package by doing:
>   callPackage name {whatever options you want};
> - if you add a new package, you instantly know where to put it
> - if we would break the 1000 files github limit - or any other reasonable
> directory-size limit - we easily can create subdirectories and move the
> files accordingly (without any effort)
>   /pkgs/a/ -> /pkgs/a and /pkgs/a/a_ (where underscore represents the most
> used second character in /pkgs/a and all packages with that prefix could be
> moved automatically - note: all-packages.nix wouldn't need to change)
> - we would need some new meta-attributes (and they would be nice, i think
> - querying for any kind of remote shell that is written in haskell or
> python would be sth like: nix-query shell AND server AND (haskell OR
> python))
>   attributes would be: meta.languages, meta.categories,...
>
> cons:
> - possible recompilation-issues whenever we move packages to subdirectories
> - changes to callPackage/... may be necessary, if we don't want to
> manually write the directories
> - gnome/kde/haskell/... packages would be scattered around
>
> even though i'm not as good with nix/nixos internals, i believe this is
> the easiest way to manage things - correct me if i'm wrong (also add
> anything, if you think i'm right, but the proposal is not clever enough ;))
>
>
> anyway: keep up the good work ;)
> regards, ikervagyok
>
> p.s.: about users being capable of reading/writing nix-files: i convinced
> three people to use nixos, none of them really use it though - so from my
> position it seems like every real user is very capable - and we don't need
> to worry much about non-nix-file-reading users...
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