> > IMO proposals that affect the entire community should at least bementioned > on the ML
It was discussed on the ML last month: http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-July/021170.html On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Shea Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO proposals that affect the entire community should at least be > mentioned on the ML, as the nixpkgs tracker is way too noisy for many of > us to follow all issues opened there. > > obadz <[email protected]> writes: > > > For what it's worth there's an issue about adopting C4 (and other related > > proposals). So far none have really achieved consensus but this is > probably > > where the conversation (if we can call it that) should continue: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/17407#issuecomment-236450392 > > > > lowPrio's code is here > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/meta.nix#L45-L48 > > Various packages can have the same "name" field in the top-level. lowPrio > > says, «if someone tries to install something with that name, and there > are > > others available, prefer one of the others» > > Personally, I prefer to use nix-env -iA so that there is no ambiguity. > > (attribute set keys are guaranteed unique or you'll get an eval error). > > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:11 AM, stewart mackenzie <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> I just want this issue resolved. > >> > >> Every time I update / upgrade I recompile rustBeta then rustUnstable > >> and it results in 1/2 day lost. This has happened frequently, recently > >> as rustUnstable and rustBeta have been broken for a long time. > >> (ie days have been lost finding working revs then compiling rust) > >> > >> If the lowprio removal doesn't solve this then how can I get it such > >> that when I issue a `nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch` and my > >> configuration.nix contains `rustUnstable.rustc` downloads these > >> binaries http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-16.03/nixpkgs. > >> rustUnstable.rustc.x86_64-linux. > >> > >> What exactly does lowprio do? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> nix-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >> >
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