[Nix-dev] Questions about Rust packaging in Nixpkgs

[Alexey Lebedeff]

Hi, Benno

You have network access only by accident =) of not enabling the
https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-nix.useSandbox

Best,
Alexey

Benno Fünfstück writes:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking into how the rust packaging works in nixpkgs recently and
> I've got some questions about why it was done in the way it is right now:
>
> * First, why do we need the `rustRegistry` package? As we have network
> access during the fetch dependencies phase anyway, could we not access the
> registry directly? Since every application in rust is supposed to come with
> a lockfile, the result should still be reproducible
>
> * Second, have you thought about using cargo vendor (
> https://github.com/alexcrichton/cargo-vendor) for the fetch dependencies
> phase? It seems like that could reduce the amount of custom code that we
> need to maintain.
>
> Regards,
> Benno Fünfstück
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