[Nix-dev] Documentation for multiple-outputs in nixpkgs

[Edward Tjörnhammar]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:30:59AM +0200, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> On 05/10/2016 07:00 PM, Kosyrev Serge wrote:
> > Benno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck at gmail.com> writes:
> >> in recent nixpkgs, the multiple outputs branch was merged. Is there
> >> any documentation [...]
> >
> > An older (?) version in HTML:
> >
> >   http://lipa.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~cunav5am/nix/multiple-outputs/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html#chap-multiple-output
>
> Best use the source in the official repo and corresponding HTML from
> Hydra, even though the older preview above probably still doesn't differ
> much.

What seems to be missing is some text detailing how the aggregating
attribute is related to its outputs. Specifically what is the difference
between referring to "attribute" and "attribute.out", when does it make
sense to just refer to the aggregating attribute and will "out" go
away(the default in the manual specifies "dev" being the default)?

>
> --Vladimir
>
>



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