>I have question about Nix proper, independent of Nixpkgs or NixOS. > >What kinds of attributes are appropriate as passthrough attributes on >a derivation set, >and which attributes are appropriate to be written out to the store in >a nix-support file?
Neither of these concepts exists outside of Nixpkgs stdenv. Nix doesn't care; stdenv defines these concepts and their use is also a question of Nixpkgs convention. >Is this just for the sake of registering dependencies, or is there more to it? I think these are to allow access to some specific data to reverse- dependencies. It often happens that no nicer way is there, so these ways of data passing are used. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
