Re: [Nix-dev] development environments

2013-02-24 Thread Marc Weber
The overlay dumps the hackage package information into a .nix file. Then a nix code tries to determine dependencies based on (eventually patched) cabal file contents creating the .nix derivations on the fly depending on what you asked for. Because brute force is used only a limited set of haskell

Re: [Nix-dev] pathExists

2013-02-24 Thread James Cook
On 23 February 2013 07:38, Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a pdf as follows let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX { rootFile = ./strengthened.tex; } And I get the following error: ... while evaluating the function at

Re: [Nix-dev] pathExists

2013-02-24 Thread Nicolas Pierron
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a pdf as follows let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX { rootFile = ./strengthened.tex; } And I get the following error: ... while evaluating the function