Hello, "Nicolas Pierron" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 07:54, Andres Loeh <[email protected]> wrote: >> The NixOS way to do this is to say: if we need subversion with perl >> support, we better get subversion with perl support. There is no >> reason whatsoever why all the functions that build individual packages >> should be first order. So in this case, we should pass in a function >> for subversion that can still be applied to the desired value of >> perlBindings. So, if you say you want git with subversion support, and >> you hadn't installed it so far, it will just pull it as a dependency. > > This problem has already been discussed on this mailing list months > ago. The ""summary"" of this discussion is that installing many > versions of the same package could cause a huge in disk space because > if you install subversion and git you will get two subversion installs > for the same user. I don't think we should worry about it. Instead, we should make sure Nixpkgs packages have "sane" defaults. In that case, `perlBindings' should default to `true', especially since Perl bindings probably don't consume much disk space, and Perl can reasonably be considered ubiquitous. Thanks, Ludo'. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
