On 10/11/2014 02:55 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
In my experience, the majority of scripts in nixpkgs either put
dependend packages in buildInputs or interpolate them directly into
scripts; adding a package directly as an env var is rare. Why is this
worth giving up the superior readability and fidelity to actual package
name provided by dashes?

+1. Are there any use cases for directly inheriting packages into the derivation?

BTW, what happens if you do it?


Vladimir


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