On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. > > On 09/08/2014 05:56 PM, Richard Wallace wrote: > >> The API changed drastically in 2.0 and we're not ready to undertake the >> upgrade yet. >> > > That sounds like it makes sense to keep mongoDB_1_5 in nixpkgs, at least > for some time. More people may experience the same issue. (It seems > simplified by the fact that I see no package that depends on mongoDB.) > > One thing that surprised me about nix when I started using it is that there isn't a way to say, "I need package X with version Y". Instead, you have to resort to having multiple definitions of the package with different package names for different versions. This seems a bit hacky to me. As mentioned in a separate reply, I expect to have several such packages and being able to specify it that way would make things much easier.
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