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

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 20:32:11 CET 2016


On 10 January 2016 at 20:20, Spencer Whitt <sw at swhitt.me> wrote:
> -1 on the meta tags approach.
>
> 1) Resolving meta tags would require evaluating all of nixpkgs, which we
> should definitely be moving away from

If eval is too slow we "just" need to implement caching.

(Disclaimer: I'm +1 on meta.tags)

- Bjørn


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