---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Herwig Hochleitner <[email protected]> Date: 2015-06-01 15:35 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: The nixpkgs.config vs overrides (was: Documenting nixpkgs.config options) To: Jan Malakhovski <[email protected]>
2015-05-28 14:30 GMT+02:00 Jan Malakhovski <[email protected]>: > > And so now I maintain my own set of patches I rebase on top of master > once and then, that goes against the grain and simplifies all that > `nixpkgs.config`-style configuration stuff fairly significantly by > adding another version of callConfPackages (also removing a ton of > copy-paste from `all-packages.nix` as a side effect) > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/compare/master...oxij:call-conf-package > > and weep every time someone rewrites and expression for a package > dropping the support for `<feature>Support` options (e.g. most recently > `qemu` =/). > Are you talking about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/19c259161b987fcb5e1c3b7a87c746372ce017ee#commitcomment-11453831 per chance? Apparently Eelco dislikes nulling out optional dependencies in the parameter set aswell. Although, he wasn't clear on alternatives in that comment.
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