On 3 April 2010 10:37, Yury G. Kudryashov <[email protected]> wrote: > Lluís Batlle wrote: > >> I prefer having an idea of the dependencies of a package in the >> all-packages.nix file. > It is just "an idea", not "knowledge". Even the arguments in default.nix is > an "idea" (kdegraphics didn't use its djvulibre argument a few days ago). If > you need all packages that depend on a specific one, use grep -r (I use git > grep). If you want to *know* the dependencies of a specific package, look at > buildInputs in its default.nix. > > Currently, we have three nearly equivalent lists: > * arguments in all-packages.nix > * arguments in default.nix > * buildInputs ++ propagatedBuildInputs > > My style has the following advantages: > * only two lists are needed; > * one can write all needed overrides in "let" part of default.nix, so > default.nix contains really all information about a package. > > P.S.: Please, use "list reply", not "reply to all". > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
Hi Yury, Confusing. No thanks. Current style is more sensible. I object. Thanks, Tony _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
