Excerpts from Rickard Nilsson's message of Tue Jan 22 13:05:09 +0100 2013:
> I would like to bundle nix-expressions with some of my self-developed
> programs, and just let nixpkgs (or some custom-nixpkgs) use the
> nix-expression from the source when building the program. Is this a wise
> thing to do? Is it even possible?
Why not?
You can always build using external files like this:
let pkgs = import /etc/nixos/nixpkgs {};
in {
pkgs.mkDerivation {
./your-source-whatsoever
}
}
The only issue if you have multiple packages depending on each other.
Usually whatever works is good :)
Marc Weber
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