[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs versioning

[Peter Simons]

Hi Vladimír,

 >> I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to keep the
 >> version number in a separate $version attribute anyway?
 >
 > That doesn't seem to address disambiguation on the command-line.

Why not? If Nixpkgs contains $name and $version in an unambiguous
format, then surely the CLI can provide unambiguous access to that?

Besides, I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to drop
the notion of installing packages "by name" from the CLI anyway?

Best regards,
Peter