We can (and do) backport new services to stable releases. For "Another example would be I am developing a service that I want to test on my system" I don't really understand what you're trying to say.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Matthew O'Gorman <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if I am going to use the right vocabulary, but as we get > closer to the next release I thought I would bring up my need for > supporting multiple channels at the nixos level. > > For example, currently in unstable there is a package for mosquitto > service, where as the current release only has the actual application. > Another example would be I am developing a service that I want to test > on my system. One way to fix both of these problems is to just point my > system at the unstable channel, but given my system is used for more > things that is not preferable, another option could be allowing > containers to specify a channel and then I could run each of these > projects in their own nixos container. Given that we are about to lock > down for another 6 months I was hoping we could address this. > > If I am mistaken about this please correct me. > > thanks > > -- > Matthew O'Gorman > BM-NBUmia4p88Jny5bZbRGcMt64SWWp5WVv > TorChat: 5w3dtk7nhkkijcpc > Site: https://b.rldn.net > Xim/Email: [email protected] > mog@rldn:~$ fortune wisdom -s|cowsay -f /dev/null > _________________________________________ > / Life is the living you do, Death is the \ > | living you don't do. | > | | > \ -- Joseph Pintauro / > ----------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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