On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 10:25:59PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > Shea Levy <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in > > progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the > > point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be > > maintained, but part of that I think is having a place for this other > > work that isn't quite up to scratch but still may be valuable can live > > (it could also include experimental coding styles, proprietary services, > > etc.). > > > > Thoughts on the idea? Any idea for a name for the repo? > > I propose "nixnut" :P > But that might not be clear to non-dutch-speaking users. > > The idea itself sounds good. > But isn't the `broken` attribute aiming for something similar?
I think it's important to have the broken packages *in front* of the potential fixers. The broken attribute (which I discovered last week) sounds fine to me too. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
