Hi Kirill, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:32:03 +0400, Kirill Elagin <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/6/24 Marc Weber <[email protected]> > > > > Ok, guys, let's be honest. Nix needs something like categories. > > > > What if you have a python library which is also a compiler? > > Put into category "compilers" or "python-library"? > > > Well, yeah, this might be a problem, but other package managers solve this > somehow. > > Thus do you want to assign multiple categories to a package? > > > No. That's not about search. Categories are needed just to handle packages > with equal names. It's unlikely to get two packages with same names similar > functionality (in one category). And there are such packages in different > categories; I can't remember any examples right now, but there are plenty > of them in Portage. > > The name of the package is like, you know, its name. I don't want vim to be > called 'editor-vim'. > What we have now might work, but nixpkgs is growing and one day we'll face > those difficulties, I'm talking about.
I think a ticket at [1] would be great, outlining what problem you see and how you would go about to solve it. > Another problem is this all-packages.nix which is a nightmare. It > should be split into smaller files at least. Even better is to > generate it implicitly by traversing all subfolders Also for this a ticket at [1] would be great, outlining: - why you think it is a nightmare, - splitting into smaller files would improve this, and - generating it would be better. regards florian [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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