Thanks for the detailed information! However, it appears as if the simplest approach to this is not possible in NixOS, just installing a local Nix expression. Is there a grave reason for this?
I am creating an executable which directly depends on hoauth and hoauth isn't required by any other package I have installed. However, this is quite a special case and a more general setting should be taken into account of course for a solution. So I can agree with library > hoauth > library' > executable. Regarding 1) Thanks! I didn't know about sdist. This might be of help but isn't really what I want since I don't want to publish the sources (or have them sitting around on my system somewhere). However, since sdist really isn't that much of work it might be an option. Regarding 2) I don't know much about overrides. Waiting for an additional response then. Regarding 3) I am somehow reluctant to differ to much from official NixOS. I cannot really tell why. Probably because Nixpkgs works for me in so many situations and I'd like it better if corner cases such as this could be handled by the vanilla distribution. Regards, Alexander Foremny PS. I accidentally responded to Marc's message directly. Here's a copy to the list and to Marc: sorry for the noise. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
