On 23 October 2014 16:25, Damien Cassou <damien.cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> imagine an upstream tarball includes a nix expression to build and
> install the tarball. How can I reuse this nix expression when I
> propose the package to NixOS/nixpkgs? By "reuse", I *do not* include
> copy/pasting.
>
> If this thing would be supported, this would give us a good reason to
> push our nix expressions upstream. This would have at least 2 good
> impacts:
>
> - a growing awareness of nix
> - a nice way for all developers to build their package

Please have a look at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/4657

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman
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