[Nix-dev] What are the rules about 'share/' directory symlinking to profile?

[Kevin Cox]

On 20/04/17 10:46, Alexey Lebedeff wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> What are the rules about how and when 'share/' folder of (multi-output)
> derivation will be merged into 'share/' folder of profile?
>
> E.g. I can't see content of
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/4a0be7837cadf9b6e9cae430d80f65a2af60dcc6/pkgs/tools/misc/fzf/default.nix#L33
> anywhere in my profile 'share/' even after installing every output
>
> Only when I move 'share/' to '$bin' output, it starts appearing in profile
> 'share/' folder.

There is a list of hard-coded directories to merge. I have been thinking 
about making it merge all directories but am not decided this is ideal 
since it is also nice to have "private" data that doesn't get "installed".