On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:39:25 -0400
Shea Levy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow, this is a lot of changes. Would it be possible for you to make them 
> available as git trees with decent commit history that can be pulled from, or 
> better open up some pull requests on github? If not I'll take a look through 
> the patches later, but it will be a lot easier for me to see them that way.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:33:54 +0200
Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've just created two gist repositories (let's see how well it works. I
> don't know whether github gives any guarantees - but people have local
> copies anyway):
> 
> nixpkgs: https://gist.github.com/2995910 (upload still taking place)
> nixos:   https://gist.github.com/2995911
> 
> Can you log into github, join the nixpkgs gist and push your changes?
> Let's see how well this works. Then we can review it easily (or give
> this gist idea a try)
> 
> Then write again with your branch name or hash.

I've been using NixOS for years, but didn't contribute anything before.
This series of patches is a redeem of my sins.
As you may guess, I have more, but they are either dirty or not working as 
expected.

I'm kind of confused with gist vs. pull request controversy. I did carefully 
read the thread about moving to github, but still don't get this nonlinear 
history/merge problem.
No offense, but I feel that gists somehow diminish contributions (or maybe I 
don't understand the idea behind them).
By the way, https://gist.github.com/2995911 says "Sorry, this Gist contains too 
many files. Delete some to view it. (Consider creating a GitHub repository 
instead!)".

Pull requests are fine, but, personally, I like the mail interface.

Anyway, I don't have any meaningful change history. I can make one up if you 
insist, but this could get another year or two.
I'm not hurrying anyone, but if you merge the current set of patches in 
sometime I promise to carefully fake meaningful history for the next one. :)

Thanks for the answers to my questions.

Best regards,
  Jan

P.S. The question that doesn't leave my mind alone: "How should I sort the 
items in top-level/all-packages.nix?" At first I thought they are placed 
lexicographically, but they are not.
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