>>>Calculating the transitive closure for all nixos modules / services run by >>>systemd is one way to prioritize. A populatiry contest could be added to >>>that. >> >> Maybe having a channel which is a subset of the main channel and >> includes at least ssh, apache, nginx, postgresql, mysql, and some ftp >> server would be a nice start? > >How are people supposed to use that channel? >I don't think I can _add_ a secondary channel which provides a >conflicting source (nixos). Switching back and forth doesn't sound >easy. > >Also, this would just make your system start to build all the additional >packages (not built by this new channel) by itself. No matter how much >stuff gets pre-built, a channel always contains a specific nixpkgs >version, so with or without binary archives, a nixos-rebuild _will_ >build everything for that release.
This will be a channel for server systems. You will checkout master and do a rebuild, and this channel would provide you with prebuilt packages for most of your server needs. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
