Thanks for your quick response. Could you please give me the reference for [1]? I don't know how I can force building a package.
2012/6/19 Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de>: > gnome support is only rudimentary (enough to make some packages work). > > Look at configure output of pygtk etc (force a rebuild [1] and do nix-store > -l $out-path) > > If you start working on python stuff please be aware that I feel that > the current PYTHONPATH implementation in nixpkgs is not enough. Some > packages such as virtinst would require heavy patching - others do not. > > For that reason I've tried an alternative implementation introducing > NIX_PYTHON_SITES: > https://github.com/MarcWeber/nixpkgs/blob/experimental/nix-python-sites/.topmsg > > But this might be totally unrelated to your issues. > >> When creating a Nix expression that depends on python packages, Is it >> more desirable to depend on pythonPackages or the inherit the >> pythonPackages.* subpackages as necessary? > I don't know. I personally tried packaging everything found on PyPi - > but that index is not that well maintained - a lot of libraries are > missing. So for now I expect a lot of manual work to be done on python > packages. > > The common case seems to be that packages which have lot's of C > dependencies (such as gtk) are more likely to be put into top-level > files. Whether this is desired behaviour - I don't know exactly. > > If you publish your patches I may have a look at it. > > That's my personal view on it. > > Marc Weber > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev