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

[Roger Qiu]

+1 on the meta tags concept if we had a new nix tool that wrapped around
find or used a cached index that could show all packages related to a
particular tag. The cached index could be auto generated on each release or
each commit? Or just generated at installation when a user installs Nix.

Committing new tags can be constrained using pull-request bots that check
against an existing index of tags.

Browsing the nixpkgs directory is a user experience issue for me.
On 11/01/2016 6:32 AM, "Bjørn Forsman" <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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