On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 17:59, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > "Erick Tryzelaar" > <[email protected]> writes: > >> Another option would be to just ask the user what they would like to >> do. If you've already got one version installed, nix could ask if you >> want to rebuild and replace it with these options, rebuild along side >> the old one with these options, or cancel.
Asking could become an issue for a GUI if the it is made over nix-env tool. So I would prefer a failure which suggests to add more information on the command line but this is another problem. > The whole idea of "replacing" is foreign to Nix. :-) Replacing form the user view. > IMO the Git Nix expression should really "build" what it needs (i.e., > SVN + Perl bindings), and we should arrange so that anyone who has a > default installation of SVN doesn't need to build a new one (i.e., have > "perlBindings = true" by default). That's the idea. -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
