Thomas Bereknyei <tombe...@gmail.com> writes: > That almost sounds like an "unstable" channel.
Unstable and unmaintained are two very different things. > Rather than removing unmaintained packages, can we make them available as > a > separate, opt-in channel? I'd say that is an option, but if the unmaintained pile contains important software and basically everybody needs to enable it, we are not much better off -- we'll still get a lot of breakage every time we update the system and even up-to-date systems will likely sport many vulnerabilities. Not everyone is happy to rely on security by obscurity of NixOS, and if it becomes more widespread it could become an easy attack target. I imagine that non-NixOS installations of nixpkgs have a different set of trade-offs though. -- id' Ash = Ash; id' Dust = Dust; id' _ = undefined _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
