Hey! Lluís Batlle <[email protected]> writes:
> 2010/3/10 Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>: [...] >> I don’t think there’s any other case where an attribute name can refer >> to different packages, as ‘libc’ in this case. Usually attribute names >> correspond to the implementation name (e.g., ‘inetutils’, ‘nettools’), >> not to the feature provided (‘ifconfig’). > > We have something called "linux". I'm thinking of getting linux 2.4 > in, for cross builds. > And I have something similar with "uboot", between the usual upstream > version, and that of the sheevaplug (forked long ago, and having > difficulties to get merged into upstream). Sure but these names refer to implementations. The parallel would be to replace ‘linux’ by ‘kernel’, and ‘uboot’ by ‘bootloader’. Anyway that was just a picky remark about style. :-) Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
