>> (like in the case with the >>parallel builds) > >What's the story with parallel builds?
There was a proposal to introuce off-by-default support for parallel builds on multicore computers. There was a patch that allowed user to choose whether he wants to do the risky thing and use parallel builds. Known-bad packages could be easily blacklisted - and with overrides it would be easy to try blacklisting locally. The code that eventually landed in trunk requires explicit whitelisting even though parallel builds require manual enabling. As far as I remember, adding package to the whitelist causes a rebuild. There is no option to go back to blacklisting. You need to opt-in globally, then additionally opt-in per-package. Of course, this code has to be in stdenv, so fixing it is costly. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
