I've been thinking of the subject in general for a while. It's a bit long
so please bear with me.
First here are various personas with different and potentially conflicting
interests:
1. As a nixpkgs user, when I want to install a package, I don't really care
in what language it's implemented
Couldn't this become a kind of dependency hell? I remember from Gentoo
that having dependencies across overlays is not a fun problem to solve.
However, Exherbo mostly solved this by having overlays be analogous to
packages, they become a kind of dependency that must be explicitly
user-solved
> There are a few package groups that I believe are not used in NixOS
> core (boot, containers, ...) and are not updated as much as they could
> be. Node, Haskell, others?
Could the Haskell packages still be built by Hydra? I highly appreciate
that, because it makes Haskell development a very
Hi all,
now that we got these wonderful overlays as a Chrismas gift (
http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-December/022386.html), I
was wondering if we can move some things out of nixpkgs into their own
repos.
There are a few package groups that I believe are not used in NixOS core
