On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to clarify a bit more: > https://github.com/bluescreen303/nixpkgs/commit/06b659f2537fdcfcb815c2f28c453337323b08af > That commit works, but I think it's ugly. > > There, you can see how this will quickly get out of hand. > "gh" depends on "pcache" and "logito" > "gist" depends on "gh", but needs to repeat the directory-includes and > workarounds. > > The final derivation does not know about the dependency any longer, so > packages that would need "gist" need to do the same thing once again. > > Also, if I want to install/use "gist", I need to make sure to include > these dependencies in my profile. > > I looked at other emacs packages, but didn't really see similar > problems/solutions. > I'm not an emacs or lisp guru, so I wouldn't know where to start cleaning up. > Something like "propagatedBuildInputs" would be nice to have. > But not just for builds, for installation through nix-env too. > See propagatedUserEnvPkgs. > Perhaps this can be better tackled through modification of the lisp sources? > By hard-coding paths in there, the dependencies might work out just fine. > > What do you think? > Mathijs > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm packaging up a few packages for emacs. They are just single files, >> really not much of a package. >> There are some dependencies though, just using (require 'otherfile) in >> the lisp file. >> >> What would be the best way to tell nix about this dependency? >> Right now, I need to install them all to have them available in >> .nix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp >> I would like to just install 1 package, and have it sort out which >> other packages are needed. >> Should I patch the source files to somehow include the needed paths >> for dependencies? >> Or are there other tricks for nix'ing emacs? >> >> Thanks, >> Mathijs > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
