please see this discussions: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504 https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/197
i also would like the service in nixpkgs but eelco certainly knows what he is doing! on the other hand installing hydra is a real pain and many many will simply give up quite soonish. On 25.08.2015 17:42, Daniel Peebles wrote: > Hi all, > > Let's say for a moment that Nix has taken over the world, and every open > source project now includes a default.nix or release.nix in its repo root. > > What does nixpkgs look like in this world? Does it duplicate the > individual package .nix files in their respective repositories? Does it > only duplicate minimal information (dependencies and meta) from the > remote repositories? > > We're already running into (a small amount of) pain because Hydra > already fits the description > above: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504#issuecomment-95547176. > Based on expectations set by most packages in nixpkgs/nixos, we expect > to find services and packages in nixpkgs, and Hydra breaks that > expectation. I'm not necessarily saying we should move its expressions > into nixpkgs, but I am looking for someone to paint a picture of what > Nix(OS) life will look like when we achieve world domination :) > > Thanks > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
