Salut, On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 06:44:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 03:32:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Additionally, it is a heavy operation for a computer to evaluate the current > > nixpkgs (2nd point). > > That’s indeed a problem. I think a solution would be to have a Nix > compiler instead of/in addition to the current interpreter, but of > course we’re far from there. NixOS looks heavier to evaluate to niksnut; We'd have to test. > > > Having those nixpkgs pointing mostly to fetchurl derivations instead of > > usual > > stdenv mkDerivations, it makes additionally a fence against building > > natively or > > cross-building those packages (3rd point). > > You mean that NixOS/Nixpkgs could be “compiled” to some sort of a big > Nix expression that just does ‘fetchurl’ calls to fetch the pre-compiled > binaries? Yes, exactly. This is the idea! :) > > It’s a form of compilation, but it’s also a hack. ;-) Thank you ;)
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