Re: [Nix-dev] creating a channel as an extension of the nixos channel, not a replacement

2012-07-24 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 20 July 2012 15:06, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > Is there a way to do this? Or are channels just designed to be > monolithic and self-contained without inter-channel dependencies at > the moment? IMHO the channels are designed to be self-contained at the moment, but what you propose is perfectly reas

[Nix-dev] creating a channel as an extension of the nixos channel, not a replacement

2012-07-20 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I would like to create my own channel. As the packages in my channel depend on packages from the nixos channel, nix-push ends up creating a lot of narballs that are available in nixos itself. In a way, this is nice, because it gives me a fully self-contained archive of everything I use. Bu