Hi. On 05/15/2015 11:09 PM, Amy de Buitléir wrote: > Q 1. Why do some packages have version numbers, and some don't? Are the ones > without version numbers some sort of "virtual" package?
Missing version should be considered a bug, I believe, at least in most cases. I versioned dmenu2 in d41798321. > Q 2. Why can't I find some packages that I would expect to find? Are they > "hidden"? For example, I have the following in my > /etc/nixos/configuration.nix: > > environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ > dmenu2 > dzen2 > haskellPackages.xmonad > haskellPackages.xmonadContrib > haskellPackages.xmonadExtras > wget > xsel > ]; > > But if someone hadn't told me the names to put there, how could I have found > the names of the packages? Searching for them using nix-env didn't find them: I consider that a bug, too. Peti: I guess this would be because of haskellPackages missing recurseIntoAttrs. I can't see it in there and no haskell packages are shown for me on master. Vladimir
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